SDF Fonts

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Signed Distance Field fonts. Use them.

Benefits:

• MUCH smaller font asset binaries (b/c only 1 texture is needed for all font sizes)
• ANY FONT SIZE AT RUNTIME w/o encoding atlases
• SMALLER MEMORY ya just use less GPU memory

Resources:

• https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/examples/distancefieldfonts/distancefieldfonts.cpp
• https://github.com/SaschaWillems/Vulkan/blob/master/data/shaders/glsl/distancefieldfonts/sdf.frag

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On rendering an SDF atlas https://youtu.be/d8cfgcJR9Tk https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-6.html https://fontforge.org/docs/techref/bezier.html https://github.com/donbright/font_to_svg https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2897839.2927417?download=true https://astiopin.github.io/2019/01/06/sdf-on-gpu.html https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Distance-field-fonts