Latest posts tagged with #Harfbuzz on Bluesky
An Arabic phrase written with disjoint letters
An Arabic phrase written with properly joined letters
FontForge now supports HarfBuzz-based font preview: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5522
Special thanks to Khaled Hosny @khaled for kind and thorough code review!
#FontForge #HarfBuzz #FOSS #opensource #typography
Shooting flowers at a favorite Eugene Debbs speech. Demo of Knuth-Plass justification (www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/...) on top of our new font-based text geometry coming soon to @threejs.org. Complex scripts like Arabic supported thanks to #HarfBuzz. Stay tuned!
I'm working on a high quality text renderer for #threejs that can simply read a regular font via #harfbuzz (js/wasm version) instead of converting to SDF/facetype. and I'm finding that three.js shapes are very annoying. harfbuzz gives you a sequence of paths and winding directions - perfect...
September’s #Tumbleweed update is here! 🦎 Major updates include #PostgreSQL 17, #Harfbuzz 10, #Linux Kernel 6.11, and more! Remember, Snapper has your back if any issues arise. #openSUSE #RollingRelease news.opensuse.org/2024/09/30/t...
the @wikipedia page about @behdad's #HarfBuzz really deserves a fully written article. It is such an under appreciated piece of software that is used literally everywhere and it has such an interesting back story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz
