@harfbuzz

The free and open text shaping library / font platform

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Joined October 2015
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Behdad Esfahbod@behdadesfahbodSep 30
The 'boring-expansion' set of proposals that I made back in 2022, with the help of Google Fonts and industry colleagues, have finally become part of the new ISO Open Font Format 5th edition international font format standard. It _only_ took four years... The proposals include the `avar` version 2 table for more expressive variable font designspaces, variable-composites, as well as fonts with more than 65 thousand glyphs. PDF can be downloaded for free, albeit after a checkout process and watermarked to the individual. iso.org/standard/14496-22

ISO/IEC 14496-22:2026

Information technology — Coding of audio-visual objects — Part 22: Open font format

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Behdad Esfahbod@behdadesfahbodJun 15
At the #WebEnginesHackfest today after my presentation "@HarfBuzz at 20!", the organizers surprised me with a 🎂. Thank you @webhackfest!
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HarfBuzz 14.2.0 is released with support for COLRv1 color-font rendering in hb-gpu, as well as streamlined API in hb-raster & hb-vector. See them all in action at our new website: harfbuzz-world.cc/

harfbuzz-world.cc

Your one-stop HarfBuzz shop.

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HarfBuzz 14.0.0 is out with the new hb-gpu library for GPU text rasterization based on the Slug algorithm by @EricLengyel. Demo is up at harfbuzz.github.io/hb-gpu-de… Also in the release is harfbuzz-world.cc, another single-file way to compile all of HB. github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…
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hb-gpu provides shaders for four shading languages: GLSL, WGSL, MSL, and HLSL.
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Check out the emscripten'ed web demo. Interact with it with the mouse. Or press space to animation rotation. behdad.org/hb-gpu-demo/
HarfBuzz—حرف‌باز@harfbuzzMar 27
hb-gpu is a new HarfBuzz library under development, that uses the Slug algorithm for encoding glyph shapes for rasterization on the GPU. We are looking for early testers and adopters, probably from the #gamedev community. Hit us with a comment: github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…

[gpu] Add hb-gpu library ported from GLyphy by behdad · Pull Request #5878 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Fixes #5877

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Now with Metal & WebGPU implementations in the library / demo as well. Both WebGL and WebGPU demos can be seen at behdad.org/hb-gpu-demo/
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Added stem-darkening at small font sizes to improve appearance. Without stem-darkening text at small size looked washed-out.
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HarfBuzz—حرف‌باز@harfbuzzMar 29
Now with Metal & WebGPU implementations in the library / demo as well. Both WebGL and WebGPU demos can be seen at behdad.org/hb-gpu-demo/
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hb-gpu is a new HarfBuzz library under development, that uses the Slug algorithm for encoding glyph shapes for rasterization on the GPU. We are looking for early testers and adopters, probably from the #gamedev community. Hit us with a comment: github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…

[gpu] Add hb-gpu library ported from GLyphy by behdad · Pull Request #5878 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Fixes #5877

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HarfBuzz—حرف‌باز@harfbuzzMar 28
Check out the emscripten'ed web demo. Interact with it with the mouse. Or press space to animation rotation. behdad.org/hb-gpu-demo/
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HarfBuzz—حرف‌باز retweeted
Behdad Esfahbod@behdadesfahbodMar 22
I'm thinking about folding GLyphy into a new harfbuzz-gpu (hb-gpu.h) library. Thoughts? #gamedev
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HarfBuzz—حرف‌باز retweeted
Behdad Esfahbod@behdadesfahbodMar 21
Open Source GPU text rasterization update: Recently, Eric Lengyel dedicated his patent on the Slug algorithm to the public domain and released Slug's shaders as Open Source software. I am happy to announce that GLyphy now implements the Slug algorithm: github.com/behdad/glyphy

GitHub - behdad/glyphy: GLyphy is an implementation of the Slug algorithm for GPU text rasterization

GLyphy is an implementation of the Slug algorithm for GPU text rasterization - behdad/glyphy

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HarfBuzz 13 ships with the new `hb-raster` library among other features. You might ask why yet another Open Source rasterizer when there are many high-quality ones available. `hb-raster` fills two gaps in the Open Source font rasterization scene: 🧵
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2. Before `hb-raster`, rendering COLRv1 fonts was not possible without whipping up your own renderer, or pull in Cairo or Skia, both of which are otherwise unnecessary for many clients. `hb-raster` renders COLRv1 and SVG color fonts natively, & soon bitmap-based color-fonts too.
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Since HarfBuzz is an essential component of proper Open Source (and other) text rendering, clients can benefit from the new `hb-raster` library to address both of these issues with little cost. End of 🧵.
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Calling on all downstream projects (browsers, Linux distros, etc) to share their thoughts on AI contribution policy for HarfBuzz: github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…

Craft an AI contribution policy · Issue #5790 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

And add an AGENTS.md guidelines while at it.

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HarfBuzz 13.0.0 released with new experimental features: `hb-vector` for vector output of glyph outlines to SVG and `hb-raster` for rasterizing glyphs to A8 / BGRA32 images, among other features: github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…

Release 13.0.0 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

New experimental drawing and rendering libraries: New public hb-vector API for vector output of glyph outlines. The only supported output format currently is SVG. The new API is available in a sep...

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