poiru

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   by poiru 1y ago

   The linked post was about Evan's side project, but within Figma, all of that is indeed possible. The glyphs are transformed into vector networks[0], which has a fill pipeline that supports transparency, gradients, images, blending, mas
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   by poiru 1y ago

   +1 from another Figma engineer who happened to work on the text engine back in the day. I think that Evan generally wrote code that was as simple as possible — there was no unnecessary complexity. In this case there indeed is some inherent,
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   by poiru 2y ago

   Skew is open source, but no longer maintained: https://github.com/evanw/skew
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   by poiru 9y ago

   You can also use about:profiles, which is a little nicer than the profile manager.
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   by poiru 9y ago

   Check out about:profiles! While not nearly as nice as the Chrome UI, it is definitely more approachable than using a terminal.