diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b43b12cc9..507ce6a3a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ For a comparison of old vs new HarfBuzz memory consumption see [this][10]. +## Name + +HarfBuzz (حرف‌باز) is my Persian translation of “[OpenType][1]”, +transliterated using the Latin script. It sports a second meaning, but that +ain’t translatable. + +> Background: Originally there was this font format called TrueType. People and +> companies started calling their type engines all things ending in Type: +> FreeType, CoolType, ClearType, etc. And then came OpenType, which is the +> successor of TrueType. So, for my OpenType implementation, I decided to stick +> with the concept but use the Persian translation. Which is fitting given that +> Persian is written in the Arabic script, and OpenType is an extension of +> TrueType that adds support for complex script rendering, and HarfBuzz is an +> implementation of OpenType complex text shaping. +
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