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by PolCPP 1547 days ago
That kerning on that "hello world" vector font demo though
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smilespray 1547 days ago
In this case, keming is a more appropriate term.
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taneq 1546 days ago
My favourite patch note of all time is from Path of Exile and reads simply “Fixed keming.”
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WithinReason 1547 days ago
You mean letter spacing? It looks like there is no kerning going on.
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monax 1547 days ago
Yeah kerning is still WIP
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rwmj 1547 days ago
Honestly the amount of crazy code involved in Linux font rendering[1], and then you get to CJKV support[2], it's mind-boggling. Even then, it's nowhere near as good as macOS :-/

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango & https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/CJKV-Information-Processing-Ken-Lun...

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copperx 1546 days ago
I'll disagree. Linux has better font rendering than Windows and macOS.
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jibbers 1546 days ago
Can you expand on that a little? I know a little bit about how Windows and macOS handle font rendering, but I know nothing about how Linux does things.
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1MachineElf 1546 days ago
If it had kerning, then would it still be brutalist?
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