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s first public appearance at Libre Graphics Meeting in 2012, GLyphy has gained more advanced capabilities like anisotropic antialiasing and subpixel rendering, as well as more efficient glyph storage and use of resources. In this talk I will discuss the design, challenges, and benefits of new approaches to text rasterization for the emerging types of computer hardware. The algorithms and technics involved may prove useful in other computer graphics contexts as well. Behdad Esfahbod Behdad Esfahbod was born and grew up in Iran loving typography and computers. He studied computer engineering at Sharif University in Tehran while discovering the world of computer typography and open source. In 2003 he moved to Canada, studied at the University of Toronto, became a regular contributor to GNOME and various other open source projects, worked at Red Hat, Google, and generally became the go-to person regarding everything font and text rendering in the Linux open source stack. For his contributions to HarfBuzz, Behdad was one of the recipients of the O'Reilly Open Source Awards in 2013. At Google, Behdad works as part of the Font and Text team, Google Internationalization Engineering. When not hacking, he enjoys good food and company, or books set in fine type. http://linux.conf.au/schedule/30144/view_talk?day=wednesday