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Reading and writing font files

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2023-12-07 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. …obscure module" that is written in Rust. Just some examples I know of: - Chrome currently uses https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations to implement its font handling, and text is the main thing on most web pages. - Windows'…
    comment by aero_code · 2026-10-21 · in Rust Style Guide
  2. Thanks. Skrifa - Skia in Rust. https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/tree/main/skrifa , https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts Harfrust - HarfBuzz in Rust. https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfrust ,…
    comment by WalterGR · 2026-06-16 · in Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
  3. …are being rewritten in Rust. [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts [2]: https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/tree/main/skrifa
    comment by Koranir · 2026-02-23 · in Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
  4. …the largest rollout globally of any library written in Rust. I think that crown currently goes to https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations which is included in Chromium, not sure if it's on all platforms yet. Moreover, the translative…
    comment by erithax · 2026-01-28 · in Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
  5. Yeah, there's also a freetype replacement https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations I think they're trying to avoid rewriting things for no reason though. The things being rewritten tend to have a history of security problems or other…
    comment by nicoburns · 2025-11-13 · in Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
  6. If you're not already using it, the read-fonts and skrifa crates from https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations can parse variable font data (as well as pretty much anything else you might want out of an opentype font).
    comment by nicoburns · 2025-05-31 · in Show HN: Fontofweb – Discover Fonts Used on a Website or Websites Using Font(s)
  7. …and see what happens. [0] https://github.com/freetype/freetype/blob/5d4e649f740c675426... [1] https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/blob/f808570ce1939...
    comment by maxdamantus · 2025-03-20 · in Memory safety for web fonts
  8. I appreciate the pun in the repository name https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/
    comment by K0nserv · 2025-03-19 · in Memory safety for web fonts
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    Reading and Writing Font Files
    story by gslin · 2025-03-05 · 0 comments
  10. …for it are laid out at https://github.com/googlefonts/oxidize , and the actual code is at https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations . The individual crates are already published to crates.io, too! The intent does seem to be to completely…
    comment by ladyanita22 · 2024-07-11 · in Oxidize – Notes on moving Harfbuzz and Freetype tools and libraries to Rust
  11. …of the lower levels of the font stack, and also on track to shipping, it's now in Chrome Canary. https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations
    comment by raphlinus · 2023-12-07 · in LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos