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Interesting.

I was thinking that this was going to be a crazy amount of layout engine work, but now I look a little closer it appears the layout work is farmed out to yoga [0] (not trying to take away anything from the effort here). So this project is almost a wrapper around running yoga as a renderer and using SVG as a form of backend target?

I say "appears" because the yoga landing page doesn't do a great job of explaining what it does.

EDIT Just looking at some of the information about the font side of things and the naming is a little confusing. You set embedFont=false to use text instead of converting the text to paths. embedFont=true sounds a lot like it will embed the _font_ required to render the _text_ - but it kinda does the opposite.

https://github.com/vercel/satori#font-embedding

[0] https://github.com/facebook/yoga




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