Markéta Jakešová and I would like to present: "Identity", an experimental short film about gender fluidity, memory, and transformation. 🌈🦋
https://vimeo.com/behdad/identity
7 minutes. Color. Canada. Contains color-masked nudity. English, Czech, Persian subtitles available.
"#HarfBuzz Study: Introducing #HarfRust"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aH_waagdEM5UhslQxCeFEb82ECBhPlZjy5_MwLNLBYo/preview
HarfBuzz Study: Introducing HarfRust behdad June 10, 2025 [Comments welcome on GoogleDocs] Introduction What’s in the name History HarfBuzz (حرفباز) HarfRust (حرفراست) Not to be confused with: RustType The contenders 2017: harfbuzz_rs 2019: Allsorts 2020: RustyBuzz 2021: swash 2025: HarfRust ...
"#HarfBuzz Study: Subsetter"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_vZrt97OorJ0jA1YzJ29LRcGr3YGrNJANdOABjVZGEs/preview
HarfBuzz Study: Subsetter Behdad Esfahbod & Garret Rieger 9 April 2025 [Comments welcome on GoogleDocs] Introduction Requirements Other subsetters Prior papers and presentations Design Read/write instead of decompile/modify/compile Input specification Subset Planning and Execution Glyph closure...
#HarfBuzz 11.0.1 is out with a few but important bug fixes. Please update.
"#HarfBuzz Study: Caching"
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_VgObf6Je0J8byMLsi7HCQHnKo2emGnx_ib_sHo-bt4/view
HarfBuzz Study: Caching behdad April 2, 2025 [Comments welcome on GoogleDocs] Introduction Design Patterns The hb_cache_t objects The hb_set_digest_t object The hb_bit_set_t object The table accelerators The table scratchpads Caches on hb_face_t Shape-plan cache OpenType shaping Skipping work w...
2025Q1 Fonts Quarterly Optimize all the things / Everybody gets font-funcs March 31, 2025 behdad [Comments welcome on GoogleDocs] Introduction Runtime & memory performance improvements Shaping speedups: AAT and OpenType AAT speedups OpenType speedups Drawing VARC fonts speedups COLRv1 speedups ...
