2D / 3D Text Rendering

[mattdesl]

This is a fairly big topic. Lots of ways to solve it.

applications / tools

• typeface.js is old, no kernings etc
• fontpath is pretty experimental
• opentype.js seems pretty robust and well tested
• SDF image generation - could be improved with a better algorithm
• BMFont or Hiero for SDF / general purpose stuff
• gdx-fontpack for tight packing / multi-page - would be nice to have NodeJS CLI versions and SDF integration

  rendering

• gl-sprite-text for bitmap / SDF rendering
• fontpath-gl for simple geometry text (ThreeJS style)
• vectorize-text for runtime vectorization of canvas output
• gl-ttf seems experimental? via @tmpvar
• ??? for vector (loop-blinn) rendering

  modules / utils

the fontpath modules are fairly experimental / scattered. Been using them on a couple projects but ideally I'd like to clean them up and rip some things out into their own generic interfaces.

• word-wrapper
• bmfont2json

[mattdesl]

Will try to keep a running collection here: https://github.com/mattdesl/text-modules