canvas_ity

There's a relatively straightforward trick that you can do here. If you've got a transform that turns a circle into an ellipse with the relative radii and orientation that you want, then: 1. Apply the inverse of that transform to your path. 2. Stroke the path. 3. Apply the transform to the result. This way, the path stays in place but the stroke is transformed to give it a calligraphic look. With a JavaScript Canvas, you can just set the transform after defining the path, but before stroking. JSFiddle example: [0]. (This was something that I tested in my tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer library for C++ and my Javascript port of its test suite [1].) For Inkscape, I think you can convert an object to a path, apply the inverse transform, do a minimal simplification to bake the transform into the path, stroke it, and then app

I'm the author of another CPU-only 2D vector graphics library that might be of interest: - Canvas Ity (https://github.com/a-e-k/canvas_ity) It's a tiny single-header C++ library in the style of the STB libraries. My aim was to make it dirt simple to be able to drop into almost any project and get high-quality rendering while providing an API comfortable to those used to <canvas>. I've been checking out Blend2D every now and then. It seems like a very nice option for the bigger, but faster and more fully-featured end of the spectrum. (Though for what it's worth, while raw performance isn't my priority, my little library still can hit about 70fps rendering the Postscript Tiger to 733x757 res with a single thread on my 7950x. :-)

I have a small TTF implementation in C++ that's only a little bigger than that and is open source. It's part of my canvas_ity single-header library [0] that's around 2300 LOC / 36 KB object size and implements a C++ version of most of the 2D HTML5 canvas spec [1]. The core implementation of the TTF parsing and drawing is in L1526-L1846 with another small bit at L3205-L3274 of src/canvas_ity.hpp. It's something of a toy implementation that only supports western left-to-right text, and doesn't do any hinting at all, nor kerning, nor shaping. But it's enough to draw a basic "Hello world!" using any typical TTF file. The test suite in test/test.cpp L84-304 embeds a few custom Base64-encoded TTF files. They're small and only have a few glyphs but they do exercise a number of interesting edge cases in the OpenType TTF spec [2]. Have a look