Fascinating! I created a tool to parse information out of an OTF for uploading new fonts to a font foundry website so already had some idea of how complex they are (even with the help of “fonttools”, which is a great way to explore to the various tables), but I had no idea about some of this - for example, the VM for hinting!
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Fascinating! I created a tool to parse information out of an OTF for uploading new fonts to a font foundry website so already had some idea of how complex they are (even with the help of “fonttools”, which is a great way to explore to the various tables), but I had no idea about some of this - for example, the VM for hinting!
Modern text shaping can even require executing a WASM binary in the font file[0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652569
Thank you very much!