You can render the entire string before upload, but then you are essentially using a CPU render, which will be slower than having the GPU do the same thing. FW

You can render the entire string before upload, but then you are essentially using a CPU render, which will be slower than having the GPU do the same thing. FWIW, this method is also a texture despite being called “texture-less”; the texture is just stored in a different format and a different place. True textureless font rendering evaluates the vector curves on the fly.