three-text: a 3D font rendering and text layout library for the web

I wanted to share a tool I just published that might be of interest to this community. it's a web based 3D font renderer built for three.js (although it may expand to other/no frameworks) and works with regular OTF, TTF, and WOFF fonts (WOFF2 not supported sadly). basically 3D text on the web with real fonts, opentype features, and linebreaking. you can take a look at the demo here, and drop your own fonts in (they stay local and are not uploaded) which has a few animation modes to give some idea of what you can do on the web with 3D text, but there are so many things I would never think of.. the demo is just a demo, ultimately, and I wonder how other people might use the underlying software library. you can check out the code on GitHub or install it from npm. it should support most scripts thanks to harfbuzzjs

I had my own use case in mind for this library, and I tried my best to generalize the API for anticipated ways of using it, but I'm very open to feedback, and have basically said in the repository that I expect the API to be unstable for a period. if you fit the "creative technologist" profile or know anyone who does (especially if they know about three.js), or have worked with any studios who you get the impression would be in interested in this tool but maybe they just haven't had it in their toolkit, please let them know about it! I don't know if it will catch on, but, yeah, I truly wonder how people might wield this thing

let me know if anyone has feature requests or bug reports! can always make an issue in the GitHub repo too