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The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 4 stories, 5 comments · first 2020-07-06 · latest 2026-06-28

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  1. …I guess this isn't a popular usecase, but useful nonetheless. Doing it on the GPU looks really fun https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue/blob/master/src/platfor...
    comment by mooman219 · 2025-08-29 · in GPU Prefix Sums: A nearly complete collection
  2. …[1] https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype [2] https://github.com/alexheretic/ab-glyph [3] https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue [4] https://github.com/typst/pixglyph [5] https://github.com/raphlinus/font-rs
    comment by virtualritz · 2023-01-18 · in Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
  3. …crates. Like a standard trait library and a standard implementation library for those traits. [0] https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue
    comment by mooman219 · 2021-10-08 · in Rust, Wright's Law, and the Future of Low-Latency Systems
  4. …that matters when fiddling with bits. I also kinda have fun writing SIMD code like this too. [0]: https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue/blob/master/src/platfor...
    comment by mooman219 · 2021-04-21 · in Show HN: High-speed UTF-8 validation in Rust
  5. …enter multiple displays with different pixel layouts. I was working on support in my font library https://github.com/mooman219/fontdue/ , but it quickly becomes not worth it. I'm interested to see your approach to the problem if your…
    comment by mooman219 · 2020-11-10 · in Complex text layouts progress report in Godot game engine