I work on a project that uses Free type for text and an improved version of AntiGrain for SVG rendering. The thought of using AGG for the font rendering has already crossed my mind, but mainly for reducing the size of the codebase. Speed isn't really a concern to me because the glyphs are already being cached to internal bitmaps, after which the bottleneck is the drawing algorithm (which is straightforward anyway). Overall, it's not worth my time to change the font engine.
The really nice thing about using an SVG engine to draw text is the potential for applying runtime effects, transformations and so forth. However that's an entirely different use case and can be done through SVG as it stands. Most of the time you want your text to be on the horizontal and easy to read, and vanilla FT is fine for that.
The really nice thing about using an SVG engine to draw text is the potential for applying runtime effects, transformations and so forth. However that's an entirely different use case and can be done through SVG as it stands. Most of the time you want your text to be on the horizontal and easy to read, and vanilla FT is fine for that.