#harfbuzz โ Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #harfbuzz, aggregated by home.social.
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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!
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1) #Harfbuzz is a #text shaping engine, it's used in #Android, #Chrome, #ChromeOS, #Firefox, #GNOME, #GTK+, #KDE, #Qt, #LibreOffice, #OpenJDK, #XeTeX, #PlayStation, #Microsoft #Edge, #Adobe #Photoshop, #Illustrator, #InDesign, #Godot Engine, and other places.
2) Harfbuzz 8.0 introduces a #Wasm shaper, that allows #WebAssembly to be embedded in a #font file. https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-8.0
3) It's only a matter of time until someone embeds a #cryptominer in a font file.
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In the field of #typography and #type #technology, a publication of June 14 sparks the fire.
Below my attempt to list a chronology of subjectively chosen elements linked to it.
http://pads.osp.kitchen/p/type-blm
With #Alphabettes #blm #diversity #non-latin #scripts @kupfers @bb #HrantPapazian #Jean-FrancoisPorchez #JohnHudson #BehdadEsfahbod #harfbuzz #abuse #racism #colonialism #Adobe #SairusPatel #CFF2 #Microsoft #PeterConstable #svg #OpenType #Monotype #UFO #JuanVillanueva #tdc #TypeDirectorClub #BobbyCMartinJr. #EmmanuelBesse #Underware #NadineChahine #TanyaGeorge #Font and #Text #w3c #shaping #layout #encoding #formats #fonttools #FrederickBrennan #FontForge #StrokedFonts #StrokeFonts #Google #Facebook #Iran #ISO #OFF #specifications #specs #DaveCrossland #JamesClark #standard #LiangHai #AdamTwardoch #SimonCozens #VladLevantovsky #EricMuller and others.