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Use CoreText for matching font descriptions and font fallback #479

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christianparpart opened this issue Oct 27, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #503
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Use CoreText for matching font descriptions and font fallback #479

christianparpart opened this issue Oct 27, 2021 · 0 comments · Fixed by #503
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fonts font rasterization and text shaping API and platform implementations good first issue Good for newcomers help wanted Extra attention is needed platform: macOS topics that directly address macOS platform

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christianparpart commented Oct 27, 2021 •
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While fontconfig works on all platforms, it's not necessarily the best option. For Windows we now also have a DirectWrite implementation and for OS/X we'd love to have CoreText support for locating fonts and font fallback decisions.

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