msdf-c

A pure C99 multi-channel signed distance field generator. Handles MSDF bitmap generation from given ttf/otf font.

This is in an unstable state, ymmv.

Based on the C++ implementation by Viktor Chlumský.

Example of using this with GL (from my C engine)

// example fragment shader
// scale is render_width/glyph_width
// render_width being the width of each rendered glyph
float median(float r, float g, float b) {
    return max(min(r, g), min(max(r, g), b));
}

void main()
{
  vec3 sample = texture(u_texture, uv).rgb;
  float dist = scale * (median(sample.r, sample.g, sample.b) - 0.5);
  float o = clamp(dist + 0.5, 0.0, 1.0);
  color = vec4(vec3(1.0), o);
}

Current issues:

• Glyph alignment seems off [X]

• Lack of multi-byte character support [X]

• Error correction appears to be wrong (pixel clash) [X]

• Lacking a sensible API [X], and code is a bit messy