Re:I had no idea that one company basically owns every font
by klodolph on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:31PM
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Yeah.
Although I think part of the problem is just how much of a nightmare Fontconfig is. I dealt with fonts on Windows and macOS, and there were a ton of hoops you have to jump through if you want tight control over how you display text on-screen. But Linux was in a whole other realm altogether—you used Fontconfig to select your font, and Fontconfig is truly, truly awful.
Yeah, I know what its capabilities are. But the best software which uses fonts on Linux tends to do so bypassing Fontconfig.
It was slow, slow, slow getting good font rendering on Linux.
Although I think part of the problem is just how much of a nightmare Fontconfig is. I dealt with fonts on Windows and macOS, and there were a ton of hoops you have to jump through if you want tight control over how you display text on-screen. But Linux was in a whole other realm altogether—you used Fontconfig to select your font, and Fontconfig is truly, truly awful.
Yeah, I know what its capabilities are. But the best software which uses fonts on Linux tends to do so bypassing Fontconfig.
It was slow, slow, slow getting good font rendering on Linux.