One downside to this vs SDF is that you would have to distribute font with your ...

		Keyframe on April 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU One downside to this vs SDF is that you would have to distribute font with your application. With that you have to license/buy that font properly. With SDF you're creating an image out of which you derive fonts and for that you don't need to license the font for distribution.

SDFs make my brain happy about the universe. I sense they will only grow in importance.