[wffurr]

Your understanding of Skia may be out of date.

See SkParagraph: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules...

And the experimental SkText API: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experim...

[jhgb]

It's possible; I haven't looked at Skia for some time. As far as I can tell, in the past, https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kernin... applied.