4 releases (2 breaking)
| new 0.3.0 | May 1, 2021 |
|---|---|
| 0.2.0 | Dec 20, 2020 |
| 0.1.1 | Oct 16, 2020 |
| 0.1.0 | Jul 18, 2020 |
#44 in Operating systems
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Used in alacritty
105KB
2.5K
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crossfont
crossfont is a cross-platform Rust library for loading fonts and rasterizing glyphs, using native font engines whenever possible.
Supported Backends
| Platform | Backends |
|---|---|
| Linux | Freetype |
| BSD | Freetype |
| Windows | DirectWrite |
| macOS | Core Text |
Known Issues
Since crossfont was originally made solely for rendering monospace fonts in Alacritty, there currently is only very limited support for proportional fonts.
Loading a lot of different fonts might also lead to resource leakage since they are not explicitly dropped from the cache.
lib.rs:
Compatibility layer for different font engines.
CoreText is used on Mac OS. FreeType is used on everything that's not Mac OS. Eventually, ClearType support will be available for windows.
Dependencies
~0.4–2.5MB
~53K SLoC