llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model. Made by @fuglede #harfbuzz #wasm

An Arabic phrase written with disjoint letters

An Arabic phrase written with properly joined letters

FontForge now supports HarfBuzz-based font preview: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/pull/5522

Special thanks to Khaled Hosny @khaled for kind and thorough code review!

#FontForge #HarfBuzz #FOSS #opensource #typography

Shooting flowers at a favorite Eugene Debbs speech. Demo of Knuth-Plass justification (www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/...) on top of our new font-based text geometry coming soon to @threejs.org. Complex scripts like Arabic supported thanks to #HarfBuzz. Stay tuned!

I'm working on a high quality text renderer for #threejs that can simply read a regular font via #harfbuzz (js/wasm version) instead of converting to SDF/facetype. and I'm finding that three.js shapes are very annoying. harfbuzz gives you a sequence of paths and winding directions - perfect...

Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2024 Welcome to the monthly update for Tumbleweed for September 2024! This month, the rolling-release model has kept pace with numerous important updates and bug ...

September’s #Tumbleweed update is here! 🦎 Major updates include #PostgreSQL 17, #Harfbuzz 10, #Linux Kernel 6.11, and more! Remember, Snapper has your back if any issues arise. #openSUSE #RollingRelease news.opensuse.org/2024/09/30/t...

the @wikipedia page about @behdad's #HarfBuzz really deserves a fully written article. It is such an under appreciated piece of software that is used literally everywhere and it has such an interesting back story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarfBuzz