slug: Eric Lengyel's all-in-one solution. ALGO IS NOW PUBLIC DOMAIN.
GNOME/pango: High-level do-it-all library.
Apple/Core Text
MicrosoftDocs/DirectWrite
kb_text_shape: Unicode text segmentation and OpenType shaping by Jimmy Lefevre.
- The modern text processing pipeline: Preface
- The modern text processing pipeline: Overview
- The modern text processing pipeline: Segmentation
Outdated V1:
runic: Odin community effort towards a all-in-one solution, ttf/opentype parser, shaper, renderer, and some other goodies.
ColleagueRiley/RFont: Claims to target better perforamnce than fontstash.
Decided to directly intergrate stb_truetype.h instead of keeping it separate (There is an option to define RFONT_EXTERNAL_STB).
silnrsi/Graphite: "smart font" system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world.
Host-Oman/libraqm: A library for complex text layout
hypernewbie/VEFontCache: VE Font Cache is a single header-only GPU font rendering library designed for game engines. (Uses harfbuzz and stb_truetype)
- Ed94/VEFontCache-Odin: Ended up porting & overhauled this to Odin-lang
- Uses a 4-layered atlas cache texture with CPU triangulated vert draw-list for very efficient but slightly reduced text quality.
- Shader sample only supports greyscale anti-aliasing.
- Shaper & Parser will be overridable. (Harfbuzz & stb_truetype for now)
- Affine KB docs
JimmyLefevre/kb - kb_text_shape: Has a parser.
jon-lipstate/runic: See ttf package (WIP).
stb/stb_truetype: Faster parsing and less bloated than freetype.
freetype
englerj/odin-freetype
odin-lang/Odin/vendor/stb/truetype/stb_truetype.odin
harfbuzz/ttf-parser (rust)
redox-os/rusttype
MSDN - True Type
MSDN - OpenType Specification
khaledhosny/ots - OpenType Sanitizer
harfbuzz: Industry standard all-in-one text shaping.
JimmyLefevre/kb - kb_text_shape: Has a shaper.
jon-lipstate/runic: See shaper package (WIP).
hamza: Alternative WIP text shaper.
memononen/budouxc: Word boundary detection for east-asian languages.
adah1972/libunibreak: Grapheme and line-break detection.
crowbar: An application for debugging the layout tables of an OpenType font.
JimmyLefevre/kb - kb_text_shape: Has segmentation via breaks (Clustering is a TODO)
memononen/Skribidi: Bi-directional text stack for building UIs. Seems to be a nice all-in-one solution.
Fribidi: GNU Bi-directional detection.
Tehreer/SheenBidi: Bi-directional detection.
unicode-org/icu: Does quite a bit but specifically also does segmenting
Chlumsky/msdfgen
fontdue
(Self-proclaimed "fastest rasterizer")
fontstash
Supported by sokol: sokol/util/sokol_fontstash.h
There are several forks for fonstash... Going to elabroate on them in a separate file
azsn/gllabel: GPU Vector Text Rendering
jtsiomb/libdrawtext
tomolt/libschrift
bzt/scalable-font: Scalable Screen Font renderer and file format specification
State of Text Rendering 2024
Text Rendering Hates You
Summer of Code 2012 - Text processing
npx-imx/gtec-demo-frameowrk/Doc/FslSimpleUI
Implementing a Font Reader and Rasterizer from Scratch, Part 1: TTF Font Reader
LearnOpenGL - Text Rendering
Improving Learn OpenGL's Text Rendering Example | Adventures in Coding
Repo for above vod: johnWRS/LearnOpenGLTextRenderingImprovement
GPU Gems 3: Chapter 25. Rendering Vector Art on the GPU
Writing a TrueType font renderer
Wikibooks/OpenGL_Programming/... Text Rendering 01
02 of above
Simple good quality subpixel text rendering in OpenGL with stb_truetype and dual source blending
Distance Field Effecs Signed Distance Field Fonts - outline and bevel
Rendering Bidirectional Text with multiple fonts and styles in an immediate mode GUIs
Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/nuklear_font.c
raddebugger (non-trivial to digest solution)
refterm
ocornut/imgui/imgui_draw.cpp#L4006
4coder-archive/4coder
gl-4.5-subpixel-text-rendering
GPU text rendering with vector textures
Efficient 2D Signed Distance Field Generation on GPU
GreenLighting/gpu-font-rendering
evanw/theta
Related article for theta's implementation
MSDFGL - OpenGL-accelerated implementation of the multi-channel signed distance-field algorithm.
andrewlowndes/perfect-antialiasing: Antialiasing via conservative rasterisation and analytical area computation
GPU Gems 2: Chapter 42. Conservative Rasterization
azsn/gllabel - GPU Vector Text Rendering
NV Path Rendering
OpenVG
ajstarks/openvg
ShivaVG: open-source ANSI C OpenVG
ileben/ShivaVG
amanithvg
SIGGRAPH2007: Improved Alpha-Tested Magnification for Vector Textures and Special Effects
Resolution Independent Curve Rendering using Programmable Graphics Hardware
Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering
Wavelet Rasterization
Efficient GPU Path Rendering Using Scanline Rasterization
Wikipedia
metaflop/metaflop-www
Metapost
Unicode Technical Reports
International Components for Unicode
A Vector Graphics Renderer — part 1
A Vector Graphics Renderer — part 2
A Vector Graphics Renderer — part 3
Revisiting Vector Graphics on the GPU
Orca Vector Graphics Backend
Graphics 2[7] Baking Optimized Fonts Data
Graphics [8]: Low Level Rendering API Part 1
Graphics [9]: Low Level Rendering API Part 2
Graphics [10]: High Level Rendering API
...
ded editor
Legendary Font Rendering
Rendering Text Editor on GPU
OpenGL Text Rendering for My Immediate UI Library - Offline Stream #02
Google Fonts: Typeface
Wikipeida - Outline
Wikipedia - Anatomy
Sociology of Fonts - Defining the Terms Part 1: Anatomy
Sociology of Fonts - Defining the Terms Part 2: Process
Sociology of Fonts - Defining the Terms Part 3: Categorization
The goal here was to find some solution that was small and preferrably interopped well with odin-lang. So, everything that was either not written in C or was not going to be an easy port, was ignored.
Now I just keep this in sync with anything I find while working on my fork of VEFontCache.
VEFontCache will most likely stay in a relatively "finished" state for the forseable future. Much of my interest have shifted to maybe utilizing the runic library when there is time to spruce it up.