Texture-Less Text Rendering

Keith Packard made a very small font, Twin, based on the Hershey fonts, that could be easily embedded in other code. The paper describing it is here:

https://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/twin-ols2005/twin_ols2005.p...

It's embedded in the Cairo graphics library for debug/test text, just like the one in the article.

The data table is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/blob/master/src... and the code that renders the characters is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/blob/master/src...

If implementing Keith's curved version is too much, you can always just use the straight lines of the original Hershey fonts https://emergent.unpythonic.net/software/hershey ... which are also pretty tiny