AFAIK stuff like .net's WPF and the GPU accelerated DirectWrite do font rendering in userspace. It's ye olde GDI that is in the kernel, because NT didn't run we

AFAIK stuff like .net's WPF and the GPU accelerated DirectWrite do font rendering in userspace. It's ye olde GDI that is in the kernel, because NT didn't run well on a 486[1]. Yes, Windows has about 5 different ways to render fonts, and no, they don't seem to render fonts the same way. (In the case of this kernel text mode / BSOD code, I do wonder does it use the GDI font rendering, or does it have its own separate mini renderer just for those screens?) [1] Probably a bit of a simplification, I know.