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The linked post was about Evan's side project, but within Figma, all of that is indeed possible. The glyphs are transformed into vector networks[0], which has a fill pipeline that supports transparency, gradients, images, blending, masking, etc.

[0]: https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-vector-networks/

+1 from another Figma engineer who happened to work on the text engine back in the day.

I think that Evan generally wrote code that was as simple as possible — there was no unnecessary complexity. In this case there indeed is some inherent, unavoidable complexity due to the math involved and the performance requirements, but otherwise I found our text rendering pipeline very understandable.

Evan actually wrote about it if you're curious to learn more: https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering...

Skew is open source, but no longer maintained: https://github.com/evanw/skew

You can also use about:profiles, which is a little nicer than the profile manager.

Check out about:profiles! While not nearly as nice as the Chrome UI, it is definitely more approachable than using a terminal.