Hello,
The Slug algorithm [1] offers a novel approach for rendering text, and
some see it as being better in all aspects (for modern computers) than
using SDFs with texture atlas (at least Qt Quick uses this by default).
There is the new curve renderer in Qt Quick since Qt 6.6
(https://www.qt.io/blog/smooth-vector-graphics-in-qt-quick), but as per
my understanding it works fundamentally different and can be very heavy
for simple text rendering, it seems most relevant for complex shape
rendering (at least for the Latin alphabet, glyphs are very simple).
The algorithm was patented up until very recently, but it is no longer
the case as per the author, so I think it should be safe for Qt to
incorporate the algorithm. It also seems to be (similar to SDF) very
trivial to implement, so it would not take much effort from Qt's side to
support it.
Going this way would also make multi-channel SDF redundant, if there
were such plans of using MSDF for rendering text, I think with the Slug
algorithm it could be abandoned.
Some interesting discussion can be found here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908962.
[1] https://sluglibrary.com
Best Regards,
Fatih Uzunoğlu
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