Piping just the vertex glyph representation first to test the stencil buffer

resources/shaders/simple_text.frag

@@ -2,20 +2,11 @@
 // SIMPLE TEXTURE : FRAGMENT SHADER
 
 // These come in from the previous shader (vertex)
-layout(location = 0) in vec2 texture_position;
+layout(location = 0) in vec4 out_color;
 
 // This goes out to the bound image in window_size_dependent setup
 layout(location = 0) out vec4 f_color;
 
-// This is bound by the descriptor set
-// Currently handled by the individual buffer and are 1:1
-layout(set = 0, binding = 0) uniform sampler2D tex;
-
 void main() {
-
-    ivec2 pixel_pos = ivec2(gl_FragCoord.x, gl_FragCoord.y);
-
-    f_color = texture(tex, texture_position);
-    float gamma = 0.5;
-    f_color.rgb = pow(f_color.rgb, vec3(1.0/gamma));
-}
+    f_color = out_color;
+}