Text rendering tutorial at DMedia

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Tom S wrote:
> It uses D, OpenGL and FreeType 2 for Unicode text rendering with 
> subpixel anti-aliasing, kerning, custom LCD filtering and on-demand 
> glyph caching.
> 
> http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/?n=Tutorials.TextRendering1
> 
> Let me know what you think!
> Cheers :)
> 
> 

Thanks! Very valuable information. I've just purchased an LCD monitor 
and find making fonts look good all the time is just, ugh.

About free texture tools, have you seen the one on angelcode? It does 
kerning, unicode, tight packing, etc. I liked it a lot
for simple font requirements: http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/