HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

The free and open text shaping library. github.com/harfbuzz/harfb… Joined October 2015

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HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

21 hours ago

HarfBuzz 12.0.0 is released with Variable Composites / Components (`VARC` table) technology enabled by default. Read more: github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

4 days ago

Evolution of @harfbuzz shaping speed over four years, for four benchmarks. Lower is better. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

2 weeks ago

HarfBuzz 11.5.0 is released, with support for Unicode 17.0.0. github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

4 weeks ago

In June, we announced HarfRust, a fully safe port of @harfbuzz to Rust. At that time, HarfRust was 2x to 4x slower than HarfBuzz for a variety of benchmarks, so we have been working on addressing that. Today, Chad Brokaw and I are pleased to present HarfRust 0.2.0, which is less…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

2 months ago

I wrote down what we were up to doing in font technology last quarter: "2025Q2 Fonts Quarterly" docs.google.com/document/d/1uo… @harfbuzz

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

2 months ago

On reddit @TheRealPomax asked what the biggest WTF moments of @harfbuzz development were for me. Here's my answer, a 🧵: I'll get to the biggest WTF at the end, but first I want to provide multiple opportunity-meets-luck moments of development & adoption:

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

4 months ago

"@harfbuzz Study: Introducing #HarfRust" docs.google.com/document/d/1aH…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

6 months ago

"@harfbuzz Study: Subsetter" docs.google.com/document/d/1_v…

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HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

6 months ago

HarfBuzz 11.0.1 is out with a few but important bug fixes. Please update. github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

6 months ago

"@harfbuzz Study: Caching" docs.google.com/document/d/1_V…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

6 months ago

"2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly" is out: what I worked on in font technology (mostly HarfBuzz) land this past quarter: docs.google.com/document/d/1RU… cc @harfbuzz @FontTools

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HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

6 months ago

HarfBuzz 11.0.0 is out with lots of goodies. Among them is integration with the Fontations / Skrifa Rust font library, lots of optimizations, and new APIs: github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…

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HarfBuzz حرف‌باز @harfbuzz

7 months ago

GitHub Pull Requests: Open: 4; Closed: 2,879. Pretty cool!

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

7 months ago

After years of procrastinating, I finally wrote some Rust code. Or rather, I asked Copilot and it wrote it for me. Please welcome `hb-fontations`: Rust-based Fontations-based font-funcs for @harfbuzz . Mostly for (performance) testing. github.com/harfbuzz/harfb…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

7 months ago

"HarfBuzz Study: hb-decycler" I wrote down my DFS cycle-detection algorithm. I thought others might find it useful. #algorithms docs.google.com/document/d/1Y-…

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Behdad Esfahbod @behdadesfahbod

7 months ago

A little tool that's instrumental to me removing all costly mallocs from HarfBuzz is my malloc-stats repo. There's a PR to make it work on Mac as well. github.com/behdad/malloc-…