Rendering of test file with test fonts:

Requires recent Harfbuzz and Cairo as well as the harfbuzz-cairo library.

Note: Cairo does not support rendering of SVG-in-Opentype fonts, we still need to render them ourselves.

There are now switches in the Preferences dialog to enable color font debugging output as well as to enable the drawing of various bounding boxes for glyphs. (At bottom of "Rendering" page.)

Future improvements, not in this merge request:

• COLRv0, COLRv1, CBDT fonts will use the fill color as the foreground color (used where the original source SVG font defines fill as currentColor. Our method for rendering SVG glyphs needs to be changed to support this feature for SVG fonts.
• harfbuzz-cairo and CSS allows one to select between predefined (defined in the font, itself) palettes or to explicitly set each color in a custom palette (via the font-palette property and the @font-palette-values at-rule). Palettes are defined in the CPAL table which is supported by SVG, COLRv0, and COLRv1 fonts. Unfortunately, the CSS to do this relies on CSS variables which are not supported in libcroco.

Rendering fails when changing zoom rapidly. ** Seems to be upstream Cairo bug, can't replicate with latest Cairo from git. **

Replaces !6938 (closed) (Changes are too radical for 1.4.x)

Edited Apr 19, 2026 by Tavmjong Bah