The art of text (rendering)

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[Apologies for cross-posting.]

Ein Hinweis auf den Vortrag von Nicolas Rougier heute Morgen auf dem 39C3.

Viele Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe,
J=C3=BCrgen.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/the-art-of-text=
-rendering
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-art-of-text-rendering

Typography is the art of arranging type to make written language
legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. However, for the
neophyte, typography is mostly apprehended as the juxtaposition of
characters displayed on the screen while for the expert, typography
means typeface, scripts, unicode, glyphs, ascender, descender, tracking,
hinting, kerning, shaping, weigth, slant, etc. Typography is actually
much more than the mere rendering of glyphs and involves many different
concepts. If glyph rendering is an important part of the rendering
pipeline, it is nonetheless important to have a basic understanding of
typography or there=E2=80=99s a known risk at rendering garbage on screen, =
as it
has been seen many times in games, software and operating systems.

Text is everywhere in our modern digital life and yet, no one really pay
attention to how it is rendered on a screen. Maybe this is a sign that
problem has been solved. But it isn't. A few people are still looking at
the best way to display text on any devices & any languages. This talk
is based on a lesson I gave at SIGGRAPH a few years ago
(https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/siggraph-2018-digital-typography/1103=
85070)
to explain rendering techniques and concepts.


Nicolas Rougier

I=E2=80=99m a senior researcher in computational cognitive neuroscience at =
Inria
and the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Bordeaux, France). I=E2=80=
=99m
investigating decision making, learning and cognition using
computational models of the brain and distributed, numerical and
adaptive computing, a.k.a. artificial neural networks and machine
learning. My research aims to irrigate the fields of philosophy with
regard to the mind-body problem, medicine to account for the normal and
pathological functioning of the brain and the digital sciences to offer
alternative computing paradigms. Beside neuroscience and philosophy, I=E2=
=80=99m
also interested in open and reproducible science, scientific
visualization, computer graphics



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