Conflation artifacts about vello HOT 3 OPEN

Thanks for researching this! As you note, conflation artifacts would be ubiquitous in Flash content -- the Flash tool always generates perfectly abutting edges, and this has been the one big sticking point in other approaches, such as Pathfinder.

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The stem darkening link is dead. I believe it has moved to this URL: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/hinting/text-rendering-general.html :)

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Not sure how applicable this is to vello's rendering model, but one approach to avoid conflation artifacts would be to use boolean/CSG operations to convert the set of (potentially overlapping) input shapes into a set of non-overlapping regions, and then composite the regions additively. This also eliminates overdraw.

Not sure how expensive those CSG operations would be, so maybe they would outweight the benefits.

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