GPU text rendering with vector textures

Here's my experience on my local devices: ``` * Quad i7 16 GBytes GTX 970 OSX FFox - perfectly smooth * iPhone 6s+ - very smooth * Nexus 6p - slightly jumpy / laggy but still…

It's amazingly smooth, I'd say 60+ fps, on my i7-3770K desktop (Geforce GTX970) with Firefox Developer Edition.

I don't know why you are being downvoted, that is what is happening and I am not convinced that straight textures would be better. We already know that SDF textures are better…

Very clever technique! It seems more true to letterforms than SDF. Seems like it might need more texture bandwidth/dependent reads than SDF, but less texture memory as a whole?…

This is a cool technique. The WebGL demonstration is pretty compelling! It's a little odd to me that they describe distance fields as having an unavoidable problem with sharp…

Yeah my rMBP uses an embedded Intel graphics card. The performance is horrible, ~2 fps, tried FF and Chrome.

Even with a discrete card (M370x), the performance is poor on my rMBP. I only tried Chrome, though.

It's very laggy and slow on a quad i7 16GB Macbook Pro. Presumably this is because of the retina display.

This is really neat. Though in practice if you are using this kind of thing I'm pretty sure you will want to combine it with atlasing (i.e. construct an atlas of glyphs via…

That was my first thought. This is brilliant, but the FS is way overworked, making this less practical and going back to the original solution (because it's fast). It's a trade…

strange, I only see white rectangles on the demo (using ff 43.0.3)

It doesn't work here, Nexus 5. That's what I see when I zoom in: https://goo.gl/photos/3EXv2t4YZRxmyNPe8

Great work! Is there any WebGL source available? The demo runs very poorly on my 15" MBP (late 2013, Intel Iris Pro). I'm not sure if it's just the sheer number of glyphs being…

no subpixel rendering or hinting. Im confused - is there a problem with cpu rendered fonts that needs fixing? I didnt notice anything wrong last time I was reading schematics and…

This looks great, but I don't understand much of the article. As a half-decent dev, what do I need to do to write "Hello World" on the screen?

The method seems to assume the geometric complexity of a glyph is relatively small. I wonder if it will work with CJK glyphs. Possibly the number of tiles per glyph would need to…

This paper from 2014 is the best recent work I’ve seen about rendering vector graphics on the GPU: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/

Signed Distance Field fonts are wonderful! I've been using a Unity extension called TextMesh Pro, which works very efficiently, and renders beautiful text that you can configure…

Although cool, this is not a particularly novel idea. I remember reading a 2007 SIGGRAPH paper about something similar Valve did in HL2 (or maybe it was Orange Box). Either way,…

Another one: https://github.com/behdad/glyphy (SDF, but full vector outlines, not texture sampling)

Microsoft has Direct2D https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd370987(v=vs.85).aspx Nvidia has it's nvPathRendering extension to OpenGL…