@hackage SVGFonts1.0

This format is easy to parse and was therefore chosen for a font library completely written in Haskell

You can convert your own font to SVG with http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ or use the included LinLibertine, Bitstream

Features

• A powerful functional interface, demonstrated with an example (Fonts.hs)

• The generated outlines can be transformed in various ways, i.e. elimination of holes for triangulation, representation with triangles, extrusion

• Color textures that are stored as files (font cache). Foreground and background color can be freely chosen.

• Everything is stored in a simple SceneGraph: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/collada-types

• Complete implementation of the features that fontforge produces (but not the complete SVG format):

• Kerning (i.e. the two characters in "VA" have a shorter distance than in "VV")

• Unicode, Ligatures

XML speed issues can be solved by trimming the svg file to only those characters that are used (or maybe binary xml one day)