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- URL: https://x.com/rygorous/status/807331669053083648
- Author: Fabian Giesen (@rygorous)
- Posted: 2016-12-09 21:10:44
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1/ @rygorous
@EricLengyel
It’s just different use cases. The compactness/sharing thing does matter for core/UI fonts that are used by every single app.
2/ @rygorous
@EricLengyel
which is the corner that TrueType came from, so that’s what it does. Different concerns for “single foreground app” things.
Branches: 2016-12-09-rygorous-different-again-for-web-fonts-where-you-care
3/ @EricLengyel
@rygorous
Sure, and I’m transforming the data into something that can be efficiently processed by a shader, which is much different.
4/ @EricLengyel
@rygorous
If designing a TTF replacement, I would decompress a plain format at some coarse granularity (unicode block/page) on demand.