pixglyph
OpenType glyph rendering. (by typst)
ab-glyph
Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs (by alexheretic)
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| pixglyph | ab-glyph | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | |
| 13 | 331 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.9 | 6.3 | |
| 4 months ago | 15 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
pixglyph
Posts with mentions or reviews of pixglyph.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pixglyph and ab-glyph you can also consider the following projects:
hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
WebKit
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
rustybuzz - A complete harfbuzz's shaping algorithm port to Rust
neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
swash - Font introspection, complex text shaping and glyph rendering.
x11-rs - Rust bindings for X11 libraries
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
learn-wgpu - Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.
glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.