#Harfbuzz 5.0 breaks bitmap font rendering in #foot and all other #fcft based applications (assuming fcft has been built with harfbuzz support, of course).
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/3755
Fix has been pushed to harfbuzz, but as far as I can tell, has not yet been released.
I've been working on OT-SVG support in #fcft the whole day, and is finally starting to get somewhere...
I was working on #fcft to improve the support for emoji presentation selectors, and accidentally fixed mixed LTR/RTL!
I just released #fcft 2.2.7, with a single change: downscaled bitmap fonts (e.g. emoji fonts) are lanczos3 filtered. This greatly improves the visual quality.
Old one to the left, new one to the right: