[$] Advances in font technology and GTK text rendering

At this year's GUADEC in Denver, Colorado, Behdad Esfahbod and Matthias Clasenpresented a two-part talk on a topic that's deeply important to desktopenvironments: fonts. Esfahbod covered advances in fonttechnology that are making their way to becoming standards, and Clasen brieflydiscussed improvements in GTK text rendering. The talk presented somefascinating insights into the problems around accurately renderingwriting systems on the desktop, and where font technologies may begoing in the near future.