linebender/tiny-skia

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

tiny-skia is a minimal, CPU-only 2D rendering library for Rust, ported from a subset of Google's Skia. It supports common 2D operations like filling, stroking, gradients, clipping, and image blending, with a focus on rendering quality, speed, and small binary size.

Use cases

• render 2D shapes and images in Rust without heavy C++ dependencies
• draw filled and stroked paths with gradients or patterns
• generate PNG images programmatically in Rust
• embed a lightweight raster renderer in a GUI or SVG renderer
• replace Skia or cairo with a small pure-Rust 2D graphics library
• blend and composite images with clipping in a Rust application

When to choose

• you need a small, fast, pure-Rust 2D raster renderer with minimal build complexity
• you want Skia-quality CPU rendering without Skia's huge binary and toolchain requirements
• you're building an SVG renderer or similar tool that doesn't need text rendering
• binary size and compile time matter for your project

When to avoid

• you need text rendering, which is not supported
• you need GPU-accelerated rendering or output formats like SVG or PDF
• you need maximum rendering performance, since it is 20-300% slower than Skia
• you need a full-featured graphics stack like Qt or cairo

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graphics image-processing graphics web-development developer-tools rust cross-platform 2d-graphics rasterization skia-port cpu-rendering png canvas

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