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Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

• adzm 7mo ago
  The article in question, https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf-fonts/ https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf-fonts/ is really neat as well, especially the interactive demonstrations
  • amitp 7mo ago
    Thanks!
  • socalgal2 7mo ago
    That seems off a little. Here's GPU accelerated vector text, in perspective where as the article claims no https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2005/01/p1000-loop.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
    • iTokio 7mo ago
      Indeed, but the author left a note: > there are newer GPU-accelerated font rendering systems that use the vectors. I have not yet explored these.
      • socalgal2 7mo ago
        The one I linked to is older than SDF fonts
• bob1029 7mo ago
  Valve originally devised this technique in 2007: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007...
  • amitp 7mo ago
    I originally had that near the top but in one of the rewrites I moved the papers to the end — https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf-fonts/#appendix https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf-fonts/#appendix
• jjkaczor 7mo ago
  Oh thank-you for the reminder to check Amit's site again! (been following since the BBS and SolarRealms days...)
  • bananaboy 7mo ago
    I’m always pleasantly surprised when I’m reminded that he and his brother made SRE and BRE. I love hearing that folks from those days are still making great things.
• mcraiha 7mo ago
  Are there any games that use SDF for 2D character (player, enemies, objects etc.) rendering?
• eviks 7mo ago
  Tangential: given the lack of hinting, is it possible to achieve high quality results for small fonts, are there any examples/comparisons to actual fonts (that also can have bad quality hinting, so real comparison to well/poorly hinted fonts would be interesting)?