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https://github.com/redox-os/rusttype

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# RustType

[![crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/rusttype.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/rusttype)

[![docs.rs](https://docs.rs/rusttype/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/rusttype)



RustType is a pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType.



The current capabilities of RustType:



* Reading OpenType formatted fonts and font collections. This includes `*.ttf`

  as well as `*.otf` font files.

* Retrieving glyph shapes and commonly used properties for a font and its glyphs.

* Laying out glyphs horizontally using horizontal and vertical metrics, and

  glyph-pair-specific kerning.

* Rasterising glyphs with sub-pixel positioning using an accurate analytical

  algorithm (not based on sampling).

* Managing a font cache on the GPU with the `gpu_cache` module. This keeps

  recently used glyph renderings in a dynamic cache in GPU memory to minimise

  texture uploads per-frame. It also allows you keep the draw call count for

  text very low, as all glyphs are kept in one GPU texture.



Notable things that RustType does not support *yet*:



* Font hinting.

* Ligatures of any kind.

* Some less common TrueType sub-formats.

* Right-to-left and vertical text layout.



## Testing & examples

Heavier examples, tests & benchmarks are in the `./dev` directory. This avoids dev-dependency feature bleed.



Run all tests with `cargo test --all --all-features`.



Run examples with `cargo run --example  -p dev`



## Getting Started



To hit the ground running with RustType, look at `dev/examples/ascii.rs`

supplied with the crate. It demonstrates loading a font file, rasterising an

arbitrary string, and displaying the result as ASCII art. If you prefer to just

look at the documentation, the entry point for loading fonts is `Font`,

from which you can access individual fonts, then their glyphs.



## Future Plans



The initial motivation for the project was to provide easy-to-use font rendering for games.

There are numerous avenues for improving RustType. Ideas:



* Support for some common forms of ligatures.

* And, eventually, support for embedded right-to-left Unicode text.



If you think you could help with achieving any of these goals, feel free to open

a tracking issue for discussing them.



## Minimum supported rust compiler

This crate is maintained with [latest stable rust](https://gist.github.com/alexheretic/d1e98d8433b602e57f5d0a9637927e0c).



## License



Licensed under either of



 * Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

 * MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or

   http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)



at your option.



### Contribution



Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted

for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be

dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.



### See Also



- [glyph_brush](https://github.com/alexheretic/glyph-brush) - can cache vertex generation & provides more complex layouts.