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>> because often you have control over the fonts you use

Good luck with that if you want to support non-Latin scripts. Now you're shipping 100s of MBs of fonts with your app.

No. You use the system fonts, which tend to be good

9 out of 10 designers disagree

And then you no longer have control over the fonts you are using, and it’s worse if you want to write cross platform code. Web and iOS (as far as I can tell), don’t have any way of querying which fonts actually end up getting used to lay out text either, which makes rendering some entered text very difficult.

I will probably end up having to ship entire text layout, font handling, and itemization stack in my wok just to do this correctly. It’s pretty frustrating down in the weeds of it.

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