15 Nov
2023
15 Nov
'23
4:58 p.m.
The effect is quite impressive. They've certainly give a lot of thought to making monospace fonts more legible and versatile.
Yeah, I wonder about adding programmability to fonts, how much that can control rendering engines, and how that could be abused. (I don't know enough about specific implementation to comment, though.)
Gilbert
On 2023-11-13 10:42 p.m., Adam Thompson wrote:
For the font geeks... The "healing" aspect is, AFAIK, long-known to be possible, but I think this is the first time it's been seen in the wild
- exciting, but also now I'm wondering about possible new attack vectors
inside the TTF runtime...
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