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   Noel Berry (noelfb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:09:00 JST Noel Berry

   I've been using MSDF fonts for a little bit, (https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen) but have been running into issues where a lot of fonts don't render right. Finally figured out that it doesn't play well with contours that intersect themselves... I looked into how the msdfgen cli resolves it and they convert the shapes to google's Skia and back, which "fixes" all the intersects lol

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     Noel Berry (noelfb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:09:53 JST Noel Berry

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     so at this point I think I either 1) try to solve intersecting shapes, 2) use msdfgen's offline cli renderer instead of doing this in real time, or 3) just go back to good old stb_truetype and render out fonts at specific sizes :D

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     Noel Berry (noelfb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:09:53 JST Noel Berry

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     Actual Solution! It seems like the open source FontForge (https://fontforge.org/en-US/) actually has a command to remove overlaps like this, and it can run on the entire font and re-export. And it worked extremely well!

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     Noel Berry (noelfb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:09:54 JST Noel Berry

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     but even though it's not compliant, a huge portion of Google's own fonts do this all over the place. Maybe because their Skia library automatically fixes them when it parses the contours haha

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     Noel Berry (noelfb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:09:55 JST Noel Berry

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     It looks like at some point Godot ran into this too but they opted not to fix it, since apparently it's not actually compliant to have contours intersect themselves https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/52247