16 releases (8 breaking)
| 0.9.0 | Jun 9, 2025 |
|---|---|
| 0.8.0 | Feb 23, 2024 |
| 0.7.0 | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 0.5.2 | Nov 24, 2023 |
| 0.1.0 | Jul 18, 2020 |
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Compatibility layer for different font engines.
CoreText is used on macOS. DirectWrite is used on Windows. FreeType is used everywhere else.
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Since crossfont was originally made solely for rendering monospace fonts in Alacritty, there currently is only very limited support for proportional fonts.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.
Dependencies
~0.3–12MB
~70K SLoC