Text Rendering is Really Hard

It’s okay to be overwhelmed by text rendering.

Does something seem:

• confusing, convoluted, or awful?

• too easy or too good to be true?

It might be!

How Hard Can Text & Fonts Be?

It might be harder than landing on the Moon or Mars.

There’s a small but vibrant genre of e-books, blog posts, and titles dedicated to getting this point across. The top classics include:

• Beat Stamm’s Raster Tragedy (Updated 2024) (Warning: No HTTPS)

• Faultlore’s Text Rendering Hates You (2019)

• Eevee’s Dark corners of Unicode (2015)