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Text Rendering Hates You
September 28th, 2019
1 Terminology
2 Style, Layout, and Shape All Depend On Each Other?
3 Text Isn’t Individual Characters
3.1 Text Overlaps
3.2 Style Can Change Mid-Ligature
4 Emoji Broke Color and Style
5 Anti-Aliasing Is Hell
5.1 Subpixel Offsets Break Glyph Caches
5.2 Subpixel-AA Isn’t Composable
6 Esoterica
6.1 Fonts Can Contain SVG
6.2 Characters Can Be Too Damn Big
6.3 Selection Isn’t A Box, And Text Goes In All The Directions
6.4 How Do You Write That You Can’t W...
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