COSMIC Text is a Rust library offering multi-line text handling. It provides text shaping, layout, rendering, font discovery, font fallback, rasterization, and editing in a reusable abstraction.
The library supports advanced shaping, bidirectional text, ligatures, color emoji, wrapping, ellipsizing, text selection, and copy/paste. It is designed for projects that need robust text handling without pulling in a full graphical toolkit.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Pure Rust multi-line text handling.
- Advanced text shaping with HarfRust.
- Custom safe Rust layout engine.
- Bidirectional text support.
- Font discovery and font fallback.
- Optional rasterization using swash.
- Supports ligatures and color emoji.
- Text wrapping, ellipsizing, and editing support.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text
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Developer: System76
License: Apache License 2.0 / MIT License
COSMIC Text is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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