Extracting Kerning Tables from Windows — Handmade Hero — Episode Guide

0:48Recap and plan for today

2:43There's a bug that prevents the fonts from loading

3:37Writing fonts in a separate asset file

6:10Stepping through the asset packer

12:53We were not setting the horizontal advance correctly. For the moment, we'll just hardcode it to be the width of the current character

16:35We were using the incorrect AssetType for our font glyphs

18:50Testing and still not loading

19:01Stepping through the asset loading code

21:16Take it back^α

21:45On getting older^β

22:16Debugging LoadFont

22:43We were not calling LoadFont yet!

23:39Implementing PushFont

27:00The fonts are back!

28:17Let's look for the correct kerning pair values

29:46Reviewing the GetKerningPairs docs

31:10Figuring out the number of kerning pairs

32:09Getting the kerning pairs

33:20Structure of tagKERNINGPAIRs

36:03What is the default advance?

41:18Question the ABCs^γ

41:33Checking the system header files to see which functions and struct offer wide-character alternatives

43:23Debugging the LoadFont crash

45:30GetCharABCWidthsW expects a range, not a count

46:00Our fonts look nicer now

47:06Using the ABC's A information to modify the alignment of our glyphs

48:13(Blackboard) Diagram of the alignment point calculation

49:32Our fonts look even better

51:13The fonts still look bad, but it's Windows' fault

52:28See how Segoe Condensed looks^δ

53:06Windows fonts make a fontographer cry^ε

54:27We still have to see how our glyph bounding box detection interacts with the system's kerning information

57:01The alignment based on the bounding boxes was already correct and we didn't need the ABCs

1:00:30Modifying the TextOutW call in the asset packer to allow Windows to paint glyphs to the left of the specified drawing point in the font Device Context

1:03:14Q&A

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1:03:14Q&A

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1:03:14Q&A

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1:03:37Robrobby Could you use another text sample like "AVA WA Ta"

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1:03:37Robrobby Could you use another text sample like "AVA WA Ta"

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1:03:37Robrobby Could you use another text sample like "AVA WA Ta"

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1:04:22Learn something new about Arial and Helvetica

1:06:22bkboggy How do you know so much about fonts?

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1:06:22bkboggy How do you know so much about fonts?

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1:06:22bkboggy How do you know so much about fonts?

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1:07:26ChronalDragon Do you typically license fonts for use in games? Or does the loophole about rendering them to bitmaps mean you can just use whatever you want?

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1:07:26ChronalDragon Do you typically license fonts for use in games? Or does the loophole about rendering them to bitmaps mean you can just use whatever you want?

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1:07:26ChronalDragon Do you typically license fonts for use in games? Or does the loophole about rendering them to bitmaps mean you can just use whatever you want?

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1:07:48Recommend Google Fonts¹^,2

1:10:26abnercoimbre Is fonts a topic you enjoy? An author once wrote: "If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science." Do you agree?

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1:10:26abnercoimbre Is fonts a topic you enjoy? An author once wrote: "If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science." Do you agree?

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1:10:26abnercoimbre Is fonts a topic you enjoy? An author once wrote: "If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science." Do you agree?

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1:11:10QuikliGames Probably doesn't make sense to look at kerning for lowercase to Uppercase. I doubt many fonts bother with those cases

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1:11:10QuikliGames Probably doesn't make sense to look at kerning for lowercase to Uppercase. I doubt many fonts bother with those cases

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1:11:10QuikliGames Probably doesn't make sense to look at kerning for lowercase to Uppercase. I doubt many fonts bother with those cases

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1:12:05ijustwantfood Would Times New Roman be any better?

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1:12:05ijustwantfood Would Times New Roman be any better?

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1:12:05ijustwantfood Would Times New Roman be any better?

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1:12:10JamesWidman What are some examples of font / typesetting systems that can do kerning well? Is Knuth's TeX the only game in town?

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1:12:10JamesWidman What are some examples of font / typesetting systems that can do kerning well? Is Knuth's TeX the only game in town?

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1:12:10JamesWidman What are some examples of font / typesetting systems that can do kerning well? Is Knuth's TeX the only game in town?

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1:14:14bkboggy Hmm... good point. More game designers should have a guy / gal who knows about fonts, because I see lots of games where it's hard to read quest text / chat text

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1:14:14bkboggy Hmm... good point. More game designers should have a guy / gal who knows about fonts, because I see lots of games where it's hard to read quest text / chat text

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1:14:14bkboggy Hmm... good point. More game designers should have a guy / gal who knows about fonts, because I see lots of games where it's hard to read quest text / chat text

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1:15:18abnercoimbre Regarding the abstract text, I agree! Which is why I asked. Given your experience, maybe you could've read more into that than I could

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1:15:18abnercoimbre Regarding the abstract text, I agree! Which is why I asked. Given your experience, maybe you could've read more into that than I could

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1:15:18abnercoimbre Regarding the abstract text, I agree! Which is why I asked. Given your experience, maybe you could've read more into that than I could

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1:15:51Robrobby The down-left corner of the "A" is cut, but you search bounds by the pixels, so why did this happen?

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1:15:51Robrobby The down-left corner of the "A" is cut, but you search bounds by the pixels, so why did this happen?

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1:15:51Robrobby The down-left corner of the "A" is cut, but you search bounds by the pixels, so why did this happen?

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1:16:33quartertron Have you played Facade and / or met the designers?

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1:16:33quartertron Have you played Facade and / or met the designers?

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1:16:33quartertron Have you played Facade and / or met the designers?

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1:18:09Clear everything to black instead of white

1:20:54Robrobby You said Molly Rocket's upcoming game has crazy font functions - can you say one example what about fonts can be crazy? Just wondering

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1:20:54Robrobby You said Molly Rocket's upcoming game has crazy font functions - can you say one example what about fonts can be crazy? Just wondering

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1:20:54Robrobby You said Molly Rocket's upcoming game has crazy font functions - can you say one example what about fonts can be crazy? Just wondering

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1:21:12quartertron What's behind the curtain?

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1:21:12quartertron What's behind the curtain?

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1:21:12quartertron What's behind the curtain?

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1:21:24garlandobloom Facade was kinda interesting. One time I typoed the first thing I said to the guy when he opened the door and he just scowled, shut the door in my face and then the game faded to black and ended

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1:21:24garlandobloom Facade was kinda interesting. One time I typoed the first thing I said to the guy when he opened the door and he just scowled, shut the door in my face and then the game faded to black and ended

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1:21:24garlandobloom Facade was kinda interesting. One time I typoed the first thing I said to the guy when he opened the door and he just scowled, shut the door in my face and then the game faded to black and ended

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1:21:46Check our edges

1:22:23Close things down here

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1:22:23Close things down here

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1:22:23Close things down here

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