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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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...
On 2023-11-14 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...
Wow, new font tech that might not bug me (cleartype ugh) and might make me happier (in my old age seeing the difference between o and c in normal fonts @8pts in the terminal is getting harder).
Argon looks most promising for me.
So in theory the font files can be put in a linux font folder somewhere and these can be run in gnome-terminal? Has anyone tried?
I've found sometimes fonts that "leave their cell" can cause artifacts as X & terminals (or whatever) has imperfect handling. I wonder if these will suffer from this. I also wonder about performance in terms of cpu loading, though surely this must be a nothingburger drop in the bucket? Last thing anyone wants is the editor / terminal getting laggy when typing or shifting text around. Then again, this isn't a MS product.
Great post Adam! I wonder when this will show up as normal packages in the repos... like in Fedora...
Far from a nothingburger, this stuff eats my entire CPU! I'll say more in my next post, a few hours from now.
Hartmut
On Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 14:46:06 -06:00, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
...... I also wonder about performance in terms of cpu loading, though surely this must be a nothingburger drop in the bucket?
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