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+# Motivation
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+This actor is only useful with applications that already speak Syndicate. For those applications that do, getting typeface and font configuration over Syndicate has a few benefits over using Fontconfig directly.
+- One less library to compile, link, and load.
+- Request caching across different applications and invocations.
+- Less system-calls at the application side.
+- Dynamic font configuration.