Refactor font rendering pipeline, remove `font-kit` and `pathfinder`#736

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Commits on Apr 29, 2026

feat(font): replace font-kit/ab_glyph stack with fontique/harfrust/skrifa/zeno
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test(font): cover the new context pipeline against the bitmap backend
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refactor(font): drop the legacy native backends and their dependencies
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fix(font): re-export InvalidFont alongside register_font
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cr: address Claude code review, remove random crufty API surface, fix regressed tests, code quality nits, rework caching so that register_font always takes effect at slight performance penalty
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chore(ci): install libfontconfig-dev on Linux runners
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feat(font): add dynamic_font example, seal FontContext as pub(crate)
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Commits on May 1, 2026