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by vidarh 1019 days ago
And then OpenType added cubic bezier back in.... by embedding postscript font definitions.... Before they went one better and added support for embedding SVG for emojis.

(I ported a tiny TrueType renderer from C to Ruby, and looked at what it'd take to add OpenType support, since OpenType uses the same container format; font file formats look like they were designed by a drunk student as a prank)