https://behdad.org/text2024/
An excellent comprehensive overview of how text is currently displayed on
digital devices:
"In this survey paper, I cover advances in the OpenType standard and the Open
Source text stack and applications since 2009. I also discuss the future
advances currently underway.
In broad strokes, OpenType added support for color fonts, variable fonts, and
the Universal Shaping Engine. The Free & Open Source stack supports all of
these advances at the lower level, but application UI support has been slower
to arrive. The Open Source text stack also gained enormous market-share when
Android and Google Chrome fully embraced it. Adobe now integrates parts of the
Open Source stack for OpenType shaping in their flagship applications
Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
Looking forward, there is a Rust migration of the text stack underway, which
will unify font compilation and consumption under a safe programming language.
Incremental Font Transfer will stream fonts to web browsers. And my proposed
Wasm-fonts will finally enable correct rendering of the most complex writing
systems that are not (and inherently can not be!) fully supported by the
OpenType Shaping model, and more expressive fonts for simple writing systems
like Latin."
Via
Linux Weekly News:
https://lwn.net/Articles/981178/
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
