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Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier
Personal blog · wolthera.infodesignprogramming
Wolthera van Hövell tot Westerflier writes Wolthera.info, a personal blog at wolthera.info about design and programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “SVG Text Layout for Krita”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts by a Krita developer on Krita internals, including its rewritten SVG text layout engine and the HSY colour model used in Krita's advanced colour selector.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- SVG Text Layout for Krita2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Read about the re-written text layout engine: https://wolthera.info/2022/10/svg-text-layout-for-krita
Comment linking /2022/10/svg-text-layout-for-krita
on “Krita: A professional free and open source painting program”Submitted Making crochet animation in Krita and Kdenlive as a story · 82 points
HN discussionCame across an article when looking into this issue, about HSY[1] from a Krita (image editor) dev, which is apparently part of Krita's advanced color selector and addresses the same issue by mapping perceived luminosity of colors. [1] https://wolthera.info/2014/07/hsi-and-hsy-for-kritas-advance...
Comment linking /2014/07/hsi-and-hsy-for-kritas-advanced-colour-selector/
on “Accessible Palette: stop using HSL for color systems”Submitted SVG Text Layout for Krita as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVG Text Layout for Krita as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Going in Depth on Font Metrics as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
