<p dir="auto">OK. The glow text example I gave that's currently inside the code (but unused) isn't great.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've received feedback from <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/MilesMSCohen/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/MilesMSCohen">@MilesMSCohen</a> that it has a fundamental flaw:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>It loses all font hinting which makes it hard to read, especially at small sizes.</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">Ouch. I want hinting. The recommended alternative is to render the text to a command list and use the command list as input to an effect that can cause a glow.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/DHowett-MSFT/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/DHowett-MSFT">@DHowett-MSFT</a> already had a sample lump of code to do something like this that he was playing around with a few weeks ago because glow text is cool. It's around here somewhere.</p>
<p dir="auto">Also, I got the warning from <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/MilesMSCohen/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/MilesMSCohen">@MilesMSCohen</a> that this might have worse performance, but we'd have to decide if that's worth it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.86]</p>
<p dir="auto">Issue: Text rendering for CustomTextRenderer::_DrawGlowGlyphRun seems off.<br>
I did the exact modifications as the dev (Mike) at the build conference to enable glowing text, which required uncommenting the line to call the function (and commenting the default text render call). I'm sorry if this is out of the scope of this issue tracker since it is not the default code, but I thought it should be included as glowing text makes the blurred background many times more usable, and well it seems off on my system.<br>
The first image is the dev's system from the video on top and mine right beneath it, the second image is when I modified the function to draw random colors, to demonstrate that some colors are off (they look bolded and blurred) and others seem correct. Ideally I'm certain all of the colors should look something like Mike's did. I realize Mike was running regular conhost, but even in my pure open terminal window, you can see for instance the WinStore.App looks much better than most the others.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2309574/57452609-e0aa6600-7229-11e9-80ab-0e525cc6d176.png"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2309574/57452609-e0aa6600-7229-11e9-80ab-0e525cc6d176.png" alt="terminal-text" style="max-width: 100%;"></a><br>
<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2309574/57452657-fc157100-7229-11e9-979d-23703fd6d99d.jpg"><img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2309574/57452657-fc157100-7229-11e9-979d-23703fd6d99d.jpg" alt="terminal-text2" style="max-width: 100%;"></a></p>