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Alternative Layout System

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1. b0a04gl ◴[] No.44394255[source]
these layouts break kerning rules. render engines expect horizontal flow, steady spacing. but with same sizer or echoed lines, glyph logic goes off path. spacing's no longer font native, it's forced by layout. font stops being just visual, becomes part of layout logic. whole engine ends up doing things it wasn't ment for. then layout will start mutates typography logic iteslf
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2. smm32 ◴[] No.44397009[source]
that's kind of the point here, i guess. to intentionally find nice ways of breaking rules to achieve some neat effects, to look into what can be done. it's a really neat thing to do.