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General"Digital typesetting" can go take a running jump Pin
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honey the codewitch16-Aug-24 7:37
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For many reasons.

A) It can be smaller to load a 30KB TTF font like "Telegrama" over at fontsquirrel.com than it would be to render it all out to anti-aliased alpha transparency maps with the requisite kerning tables. Particularly if you need it in several sizes

B) I work with design teams that produce content in a particular style and want it replicated as closely as possible. It's fast for me to just embed a proper TTF from somewhere like fontsquirrel - or even one they give me rather than having to try to prune and create a specific VLW fontset

C) Although this isn't as true of my professional projects, my hobby projects often target multiple pieces of hardware with different display resolutions. TTF scales. Fixed raster fonts do not. And I *have* had to do this professionally a few times when we hadn't finalized the hardware yet.

D) ARM CPUs have pretty decent floating point, and can handle my TTF and SVG rendering with relative ease. The ESP32 struggles a bit, but it's more of a hobbyist chip anyway. Edit: I should add that even then it's very usable in many situations and I employ it several of my hobby projects.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix


modified 16-Aug-24 13:47pm.

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