HarfBuzz Slug Support with WebGL
mcraiha
27 points
5 comments
April 03, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
tikimcfee
Very cool. I've noticed slug popping up more often on HN and I've been thinking of finding a way to incorporate it into my project as well. Is this yours? What's your rendering system like - anything novel or fun you run into when working with text and GPU parallelism?
notachatbot123
HarfBuzz = text shaping engine, https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz Slug = Formely patented font rendering algorithm for GPUs, freed 2 weeks ago https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html
jasonjmcghee
Note to author: the WebGL has great zoom settings, but WebGPU has different ones that feel very low-sensitivity (at least on trackpad on macos)
eviks
Are there good explanations/demos comparing this to msdf?