rds has done quite a lot of work on sprite font plus
It’s under the mit license
The pros.
It can do that as well as some other stuff and it allows for unicode 16 encoding at least (same as a visual studio string).
The cons depending on how you look at it.
It doesn’t use truetype under the hood it uses basically its opposite stb what this means is.
While it looks better for simple bitmap fonts that don’t have hinting.
It looks worse for actual truetype fonts with all the extra hinting information which look really good.
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