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		nahumfarchi on Feb 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pay attention to WebAssembly One thing that I was curious about, if I may ask, is how does Figma goes about font rendering?

hansworst on Feb 1, 2022 [–]

Not sure if they use the same, but here's an article about text rendering from the CTO of Figma: https://medium.com/@evanwallace/easy-scalable-text-rendering...

nahumfarchi on Feb 2, 2022 | [–]

Thanks, I actually remember seeing this one (even did a toy implementation which was quite fun). Wasn't aware it was by the CTO of Figma.

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