Fontdue

Fontdue is a simple, no_std, pure Rust, truetype font parser and rasterizer. It aims to support all valid (unicode encoded) TrueType fonts correctly. It aims to make interacting with fonts as fast as possible. This includes getting layout information and rasterization.

A non-goal of this library is to be allocation free and have a fast/"zero cost" initial load. This libary does make allocations and depends on the alloc crate. Fonts are fully parsed on creation and relevant information is stored in a more conveinent to accesss format. Unlike other font libraries, the font structures have no lifetime dependencies since it allocates its own space.

Ideally, font loading should be faster in the future, but making the loading process correct and readable was the initial priority.

TrueType Tables

• cmap Character to glyph mapping (Unicode only)
  • Supports popular formats 0, 4, 6, 10, 12, 13
  • Planned support: formats 2, 8, 14
• glyf Glyph outlining
  • Planned support: Compound glyph matched points, compound glyph scaled offset
• head General font information
• hhea General horizontal layout
• hmtx Glyph horizontal layout
• loca Glyph outline offsets and lengths
• maxp Maximum values used for the font

Planned support for: - kern Kerning pair layout - vhea General vertical layout - vmtx Glyph vertical layout

Performance

Fastest rasterizing in the west.

Fontdue

Here are some benchmarks. They generate the layout metrics and bitmap for the letter 'g' are different sizes. This is going straight from the character 'g' to the metrics and bitmap, which is how the majority of people will interact with a font library.

``` Fontdue: Metrics and rasterize 'g' at 12px time: [1.9893 us 2.0058 us 2.0241 us]

Fontdue: Metrics and rasterize 'g' at 24px time: [2.8187 us 2.8463 us 2.8767 us] ```

For benchmarks, you often see the lookup step skipped and instead just see the direct glyph index to output. Below are those benchmarks. Indexed benchmarks aren't typically representative of real world performance.

``` Fontdue: Metrics and rasterize 'g' indexed at 12px time: [1.9635 us 1.9878 us 2.0167 us]

Fontdue: Metrics and rasterize 'g' indexed at 24px time: [2.7852 us 2.8059 us 2.8312 us] ```

RustType

Other popular font library.

``` RustType: Metrics and rasterize 'g' at 12px time: [9.7445 us 9.7559 us 9.7690 us]

RustType: Metrics and rasterize 'g' at 24px time: [13.515 us 13.540 us 13.569 us] ```

Attribution

Inspired by how simple the wonderful rusttype crate made font parsing look. Rasterizer from the font-rs crate.