[$] Advances in font technology and GTK text rendering

At this year's GUADEC in Denver, Colorado, Behdad Esfahbod and Matthias Clasen
presented a two-part talk on a topic that's deeply important to desktop
environments: fonts. Esfahbod covered advances in font
technology that are making their way to becoming standards, and Clasen briefly
discussed improvements in GTK text rendering. The talk presented some
fascinating insights into the problems around accurately rendering
writing systems on the desktop, and where font technologies may be
going in the near future.