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Text Rendering

Libraries and tools for loading and rendering fonts

Crates

  • ab_glyph

    Text Rendering

    API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs.

    • Latest version:
      0.2.32
    • Downloads:
      52,956,231
    • Recent downloads:
      14,704,787
    • License:
      Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      454
    • Last activity:
      2026-08-30

  • bmfont

    Text Rendering

    bitmap font config parser

    • Latest version:
      0.3.3
    • Downloads:
      19,797
    • Recent downloads:
      1,437
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      9
    • Last activity:
      2024-03-14

  • fontdue

    Text Rendering

    A simple no_std font parser and rasterizer.

    • Latest version:
      0.9.5
    • Downloads:
      12,866,667
    • Recent downloads:
      4,681,877
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0 OR Zlib
    • Stars:
      1,716
    • Last activity:
      2026-10-19

  • game-toolkit

    2D Rendering · 3D Rendering · Animation · Audio · Game Engines · Input · Shaders · Text Rendering

    A Rust game-jam toolkit for 2D and 3D - umbrella crate; use game_toolkit::prelude::* and go.

    • Latest version:
      0.11.3
    • Downloads:
      380
    • Recent downloads:
      321
    • License:
      EUPL-1.2
    • Stars:
      1
    • Last activity:
      2026-11-08

  • notan

    2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

    A simple portable multimedia layer to create apps or games easily

    • Latest version:
      0.14.0
    • Downloads:
      79,700
    • Recent downloads:
      6,975
    • License:
      MIT OR Apache-2.0
    • Stars:
      973
    • Last activity:
      2026-01-17

  • rusttype

    Text Rendering

    A pure Rust alternative to libraries like FreeType. RustType provides an API for loading, querying and rasterising TrueType fonts. It also provides an implementation of a dynamic GPU glyph cache for hardware font rendering.

    • Latest version:
      0.9.3
    • Downloads:
      17,752,951
    • Recent downloads:
      1,194,458
    • License:
      MIT / Apache-2.0

  • sdl2

    2D Rendering · Audio · Game Engines · Text Rendering · Input · Windowing

    SDL2 bindings for Rust

    • Latest version:
      0.38.0
    • Downloads:
      5,716,073
    • Recent downloads:
      799,924
    • License:
      MIT
    • Stars:
      2,956
    • Last activity:
      2026-03-22

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