ab-glyph
Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs (by alexheretic)
wgpu-text
📜A simple 2D text renderer for wgpu📜
> is a wrapper over glyph-brush for easier text rendering in wgpu
> inspired by similar to wgpu_glyph (by Blatko1)
| ab-glyph | wgpu-text | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 333 | 79 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.3 | 7.5 | |
| 27 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ab-glyph
Posts with mentions or reviews of ab-glyph.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.
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Any suggestion for gpu text rendering?
I've only used ab-glyph myself though.
- A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
- Draw 2D Text in OpenGL
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How to render text with rust?
ab_glyph is at the same level to DirectWrite/uniscribe where you hand it a character, and it hands you back a rasterized glyph - it's on you on how to draw it.
- Text Rendering w/ HarfBuzz, FreeType and OpenGL
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swash: Complex text shaping and glyph rasterization in pure Rust
Like tiny-skia? As for font-specific one there are ab-glyph and fontdue.
wgpu-text
Posts with mentions or reviews of wgpu-text.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-27.
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wgpu_glyph VS wgpu-text - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 27 Mar 2022
wgpu-text is similar to wgpu_glyph but simpler. It provides basic text rendering and is still being worked on for new features.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ab-glyph and wgpu-text you can also consider the following projects:
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
rend3 - Easy to use, customizable, efficient 3D renderer library built on wgpu.
rustybuzz - A complete harfbuzz's shaping algorithm port to Rust
wgpu_glyph - A fast text renderer for wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu)
neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
swash - Font introspection, complex text shaping and glyph rendering.
rusttype - Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype
x11-rs - Rust bindings for X11 libraries
glyphon - 🦅🦁 Fast, simple 2D text renderer for wgpu
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
rui - Declarative Rust UI library