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A fast, practical GPU rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics

20 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 2 stories, 18 comments · first 2019-06-15 · latest 2025-06-13

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  1. > Can you imagine rewriting a modern web browser engine to use GPU-accelerated text rendering? https://github.com/servo/pathfinder uses GPU compute shaders to do this, which has way better performance than trying to fit this task into the…
    comment by zozbot234 · 2025-06-13 · in Rendering Crispy Text on the GPU
  2. …Ruffle/SWF content, Lottie, etc. Also, for a renderer there is one by Mozilla called Pathfinder: https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by speps · 2024-04-02 · in 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
  3. …of games and IoT though. https://felt.com/blog/svg-to-canvas-part-2-building-interact... and https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/ might be of interest.
    comment by neftaly · 2023-11-11 · in Capturing the WebGPU Ecosystem
  4. …rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics using OpenGL 3.0+, OpenGL ES 3.0+, WebGL 2, and Metal. https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by GeekyBear · 2023-05-27 · in Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust
  5. You might be interested in https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by bepvte · 2022-12-16 · in Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer
  6. …out for me (and usually low res is not a problem, so it is about font aliasing). Something like https://github.com/servo/pathfinder (newer) and as you mentioned SDF (older) are the latest approaches.
    comment by lostmsu · 2022-07-20 · in Stereokit – Open-source mixed reality library by Microsoft
  7. …for Google’s Fuchsia (Spinel?) [3] also does this. 1: https://github.com/linebender/piet-gpu 2: https://github.com/servo/pathfinder 3: https://www.tdcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1580&c...
    comment by ppier · 2022-02-24 · in Ledit: Simple, GPU-rendered, no bullshit text editor
  8. Have you checked out the Pathfinder library? https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by zackangelo · 2021-11-01 · in Introducing the layer based SVG engine
  9. …thub.com/femtovg/femtovg/blob/master/assets/demo.p... ) is the same one I've seen in the Pathfinder ( https://github.com/servo/pathfinder ) examples. Is it something common, like the tiger used to demo SVG libraries?
    comment by rudedogg · 2021-02-22 · in Nuklear: A cross-platform GUI library in C
  10. …[1]: https://flutter.dev/ [2]: https://github.com/linebender/druid [3]: https://github.com/servo/pathfinder [4]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui [5]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear [6]: https://github.com/rxi/lite
    comment by pqb · 2020-08-11 · in Golang Desktop App with Webview/Lorca, WASM and Bazel
  11. …This is exactly what Pathfinder does. pcwalton is on this thread and is the main author of that. https://github.com/servo/pathfinder#features says: > Advanced font rendering. Pathfinder can render fonts with slight hinting and can perform…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2020-06-14 · in Fast 2D Rendering on GPU
  12. any relation to the work currently being done here by pcwalton? https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/pull/350 hopefully you guys aren't doing identical work in parallel (no pun intended) :)
    comment by leeoniya · 2020-06-14 · in Fast 2D Rendering on GPU
  13. …work on improving text rendering under 3D transformations, do you think that could be integrated? https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by cjbprime · 2019-12-14 · in Show HN: Hacking on a VR desktop inside of a VR desktop [video]
  14. …[1], but you already addressed it in your github README. Thanks for contributing in this space [1] https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/blob/master/README.md
    comment by riquito · 2019-11-20 · in Allsorts: font parser and shaping engine implemented in Rust
  15. …file. This can be done in rust with skribo and font-kit You can check out this issue for more info: https://github.com/servo/pathfinder/issues/143
    comment by daww · 2019-08-04 · in Modern Text Rendering with Linux
  16. Please feel free to check out the repo, file issues, and submit PRs! https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by pcwalton · 2019-07-19 · in Slug: Dynamic GPU Font Rendering and Advanced Text Layout
  17. Does anyone know how this compares to PathFinder [1] ? 1. https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by steeve · 2019-07-19 · in Slug: Dynamic GPU Font Rendering and Advanced Text Layout
  18. …in using Pathfinder [3], hopefully from a higher-level API like libservo or WebRender. [3] https://github.com/servo/pathfinder
    comment by AlbertoGP · 2019-06-15 · in Servo, the Parallel Browser Engine Project