GSoC 2026 : Text Node improvement and other typography supports

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About

My name is Jatin (aka Bunny) (@Annonnymmousss ) and I will be working on the "Improvement of text node and adding new text attributes to improve typography" as my GSoC 2026 project.

Synopsis

The goal of the project is to improve the existing implementation of the text node in Graphite and add new text attributes to improve typography.

Deliverables

• Add support for rendering list<string> directly as raw paths.
• Split the current text node into two different nodes: Text (just creates a List<String> that applies the given text and typographic/styling attributes) and Text to Vector which vectorizes it(list<vector>).
• Add new text attributes to improve typography.

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Progress

Community Bonding - Week 1 (#4141 )

• Added rendering support for list<string> into the vello and svg renderer which would read the attributes for the font information and other font properties and directly render it as raw paths instead of ever becoming vector as rendering directly is raw path is much faster than rendering as vectors.

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• Split the existing text node which render the string into vector into two separate nodes: Text (just creates a List<String> that applies the given text and typographic/styling attributes) and Text to Vector which vectorizes it(list<vector>) and extended List<String> rendering to work with all typographic parameters currently supported through the Text node.

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