mooman219/fontdue

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Fontdue is a pure Rust, no_std TrueType and OpenType font rasterizer and layout library focused on minimal end-to-end latency. It is designed as a fast replacement for rusttype, ab_glyph, and glyph_brush_layout, though it does not handle complex text shaping.

Use cases

• rasterize glyphs from ttf and otf fonts in rust
• render text in a game engine or UI toolkit
• use font rendering in no_std or embedded environments
• compile font rendering to webassembly for browser canvas rendering
• replace rusttype or ab_glyph for faster glyph rasterization
• compute naive text layout metrics for strings

When to choose

• you need the fastest possible glyph rasterization in Rust
• you target no_std, embedded, or wasm environments
• your text is simple Latin-style layout and doesn't need complex shaping
• you want font structures without lifetime dependencies

When to avoid

• you need full text shaping for Arabic, Indic, or other complex scripts
• you need a complete text engine with bidi, line breaking, and rich layout (consider Cosmic Text)
• you require allocation-free font parsing

Facets

library · maturity stable

graphics parser ui-components graphics cross-platform rust wasm cross-platform embedded font-rasterizer truetype opentype no-std text-layout text-rendering game-development

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