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wait, sdf rendering of text 1) only requires using alpha testing, you don't even need shaders, 2) is in team fortress 2?
i had no idea it was that old or that simple to implement, damn https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf
it fits with how tf2 makes heavy use of pretty cartoonish fonts, which are clearly vector and always look sharp, come to think of it
@hikari A quirk on the "it's that old?" element is TF2 was groundbreaking for using SDFs. Like, it seems to have been the event that popularized SDFs, when I first got into SDFs a lot of the early stuff written about it referenced TF2 and a paper that was written about it (possibly the one you just linked, I forget)