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2D drawing and fancy fonts

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"Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible." It seems it's not a unicode font. Now "DirectWrite is a text layout and glyph rendering API by Microsoft." As "DirectWrite is hardware-accelerated (using the GPU) when running on top of Direct2D, but can also use the CPU to render on any target, ..." it seems using Direct2D is worth it as it renders somewhat faster. I did read somewhere to use the TrueTypeFont variant as the hinting supported by TTF improves appearance (tries to avoid rasterization artifacts.

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