https://github.com/alacritty/crossfont

Cross platform native font loading and rasterization library for Rust
https://github.com/alacritty/crossfont

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Cross platform native font loading and rasterization library for Rust

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alacritty/crossfont
• Owner: alacritty
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2020-07-18T00:14:42.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-14T06:44:23.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-02T09:57:27.714Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: bsd, font, linux, macos, rust, windows
• Language: Rust
• Homepage:
• Size: 94.7 KB
• Stars: 77
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 33
• Open Issues: 7
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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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Since crossfont was originally made solely for rendering monospace fonts in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](https://github.com/alacritty/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.