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# edu-1nox
title: §17 Signed Distance Fields for font rendering
status: completed
type: task
priority: normal
created_at: 2026-03-13T19:55:11Z
updated_at: 2026-03-16T02:30:28Z
parent: edu-4u7w
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Write the conceptual section on SDFs for font rendering: what an SDF encodes, why it scales better than bitmaps, how to threshold and anti-alias in the fragment shader. Brief — reading and intuition only. Part 6 of the Shader Programming chapter.