linebender/norad

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Rust crate for working with Unified Font Object files

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Forks: 16
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 35

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Jul 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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35 open issues indexed

Support DesignSpace v5.x data Open

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linebender/norad#416 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Open files via hashmap Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linebender/norad#386 · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Support reading and writing JSON-ified UFOs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#385 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Implement lazy glif parsing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

linebender/norad#376 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2025
Float deserialisation: difference in Rust & Python parsing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#375 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 2, 2025
norad should not reorder layers Open

spec compliance

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

linebender/norad#343 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 11, 2024
Serialization of Designspaces mangles lib Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#338 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 28, 2023
Better kerning & groups tooling Open

discussion enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#331 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2023
WASM support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#324 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2023
Designspaces: handle localization Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#323 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2023
Check if global guidelines get the real->int treatment Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#269 · Opened Jul 26, 2022
GLIF load/save: Filter duplicate codepoints Open

spec compliance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#263 · Opened Mar 9, 2022
Glif parsing: ensure outline element has no attributes Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 52/100

linebender/norad#250 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 14, 2022
Please use my `IntegerOrFloat`. I added a `Negative` for you Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#248 · 16 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2022
`crate::font::load_layers` and `LayerSet::load` should agree whether layercontents.plist is required or not Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linebender/norad#223 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 28, 2021
reuse storage when parsing multiple glyphs Open

enhancement perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#221 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 24, 2021
Component handling: add API for checked insertion and removal? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#219 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2021
Review API for type improvements Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linebender/norad#218 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 21, 2021
API to change UFOs in-place Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#210 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 1, 2021
public GlyphBuilder Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#199 · Opened Nov 10, 2021
Glyph serialization: Error out if any floats are infinite, subnormal, or NaN Open

spec compliance

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linebender/norad#198 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 9, 2021
Plist deserialization: investigate better error reporting Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#196 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 2, 2021
Add changelog Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

linebender/norad#194 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2021
Float serialization: option to limit precision Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#189 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 30, 2021
Deserialization: Option to have object libs stay where they are Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linebender/norad#188 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2021
Plist serialization: option to indent first dict element, expand empty elements Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#179 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2021
Have a bunch of benchmarks Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#177 · 12 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2021
See if we can have compile times stay low Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#175 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2021
Experiment with test suite layout Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#152 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2021
Implement transformation for glyph contents when kurbo available Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linebender/norad#110 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2021
To what extent, if any, should norad collaborate with MFEK/glifparser.rlib? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#107 · 20 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2021
Python bindings and mutation patterns Open

discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#91 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2021
Pen Protocol Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linebender/norad#87 · Opened Feb 21, 2021
Handling serialization errors Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#74 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 31, 2020
Improve plist handling Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linebender/norad#62 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 30, 2020

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