TL;DR: Separating glyphs and metadata into two tables may have over-complicated the design
When first written, @dataclass didn't play nice with Pillow image cores. Since this type is painful to use / annotate, it may be best to take another approach.
One possible solution is to redesign the class as follows:
class RasterFont(MutableMapping[str, Glyph]):
# Rember to add getmask2, which returns a tuple + is expected by PIL's font renderer now?
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TL;DR: Separating glyphs and metadata into two tables may have over-complicated the design
When first written,
@dataclassdidn't play nice with Pillow image cores. Since this type is painful to use / annotate, it may be best to take another approach.One possible solution is to redesign the class as follows: