HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

HarfBuzz has another property way too few libraries have: A refreshingly simple API. Make a buffer, set a few properties (direction, script, languge, font), add some UTF-8 text, and you get a bunch of glyphs and positions back. I wish more libraries focused on making simple things simple—the reason I'm using something like HarfBuzz is that I'm not an expert, so I don't want an API that's geared towards experts.