Abstract: Provided are methods and systems of glyph management using texture atlases that may, among other things, improve User Interface (UI) performance and quality, as well as reduce memory requirements for storing glyphs. Due to their monochrome nature, glyphs are stored on any one of the red, green, blue, or alpha color channels that exist within a texture memory. Commonly used glyphs may be used to generate an initial texture atlas or texture atlases. Texture atlases may also be dynamically updated as additional glyphs are needed. Required glyphs needed to be displayed in a UI may be provided from the texture atlas to a graphics processor, and the graphics processor can use texture information to render the glyphs in the UI.

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems of glyph management using texture atlases that may, among other things, improve User Interface (UI) performance and quality, as well as reduce memory requirements for storing glyphs. Due to their monochrome nature, glyphs are stored on any one of the red, green, blue, or alpha color channels that exist within a texture memory. Commonly used glyphs may be used to generate an initial texture atlas or texture atlases. Texture atlases may also be dynamically updated as additional glyphs are needed. Required glyphs needed to be displayed in a UI may be provided from the texture atlas to a graphics processor, and the graphics processor can use texture information to render the glyphs in the UI.