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Font technology is amazing and there has been inmense progress. Yet, a principled approach to displaying “Text” is far from a solved issue. I claim that historical baggage is hindering the choice of the right abstractions for the problem. Problem The concept of “font” is solving too many problems at the same time and the process of displaying text is usually divided into steps that are not sequential. In other words, it seems that we are not using the right abstraction to tame the complexity of...