We take text rendering for granted. That said, it's easier said than done, especially on the GPU.

Didn't know we had this unit. It's welcome indeed.

A good tour of various techniques available on the web for making textured text.

Very long read but will be an essential resource to have a fine understanding of text rendering in its current form.

Nice set of tricks to optimize load and render time of webpages.

Interesting free font. Made for aeronautics, but brings interesting properties which might be useful in other contexts as well. Created around Toulouse and my old University too!

Think of the typography and fonts if you don't want to have text jumping around in your GUI.

Very nice approach to avoid the font bloating on the web. I'm slightly concerned about the maintenance over time but at least it has proper fallbacks and the fonts used seem widespread enough (for now).

Good list of system fonts to use in your CSS.

A few nice tips for dealing with fonts on the web.

Yes, fonts are hard to deal with... not it doesn't need to be like this. I suspect it'll stay like this for a long while though.