servo/font-kit

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A cross-platform font loading library written in Rust

Stars: 840
Forks: 137
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 56
Avg merge: 4h 56m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 29, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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56 open issues indexed

Freetype version incompatibility with https://github.com/servo/rust-harfbuzz Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

servo/font-kit#279 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Freetype backend doesn't work on macOS Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

servo/font-kit#275 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 1, 2026
Linker error compiling examples Open

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

servo/font-kit#272 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
core_text's all_fonts() occurs heavy memory usage in macOS Open

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

servo/font-kit#270 · Opened Dec 27, 2025
`CoreTextSource` gives `Handle::Memory`, causing the path data to be lost, while `DirectWriteSource` and `FontconfigSource` all give `Handle::Path` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

servo/font-kit#269 · Opened Nov 18, 2025
`properties()` only returns properties for single font variation Open

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

servo/font-kit#263 · Opened May 11, 2025
Stub get_fallbacks Open

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

servo/font-kit#257 · Opened Nov 23, 2024
Pixels cut off of some characters in `render-glyph` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

servo/font-kit#253 · Opened Oct 6, 2024
Panic when checking file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

servo/font-kit#250 · Opened Jul 24, 2024
`font.outline()` renders a glyph in reversed shape Open

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

servo/font-kit#247 · Opened Jul 12, 2024
"Ubuntu" matches "Ubuntu-ExtraBold" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

servo/font-kit#245 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2024
Panic on Mac OS trying to read Apple Color Emoji Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

servo/font-kit#236 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 2, 2024
Cannot access source error on macOS Open

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

servo/font-kit#231 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 19, 2024
Cargo pulling in source dependencies even when the source feature is disabled Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

servo/font-kit#229 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 15, 2024
use `windows` crate instead of `winapi` Open

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

servo/font-kit#228 · Opened Dec 24, 2023
Looking up fallback/generic versions of fonts (e.g. Times New Roman) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

servo/font-kit#226 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2023
select_font tests fail when other fonts present on the system Open

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

servo/font-kit#217 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 21, 2023
Load system UI font Open

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

servo/font-kit#216 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2023
Potential font loading performance increase of >50% Open

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

servo/font-kit#215 · Opened Sep 8, 2023
load font extremely slowly on macos than in windows and linux. Open

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

servo/font-kit#209 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 13, 2023
It is possible to use font-kit to render glyphs in an HTML5 canvas using WebAssembly (WASM) Open

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

servo/font-kit#208 · Opened Jan 12, 2023
How to measure text? Open

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

servo/font-kit#207 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 12, 2023
How to render text into one line with a given font? Open

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

servo/font-kit#204 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 5, 2022
Provide APIs which allow using a font from `&'static [u8]` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

servo/font-kit#201 · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 21, 2022
Anti-aliased glyphs sometimes get pixels clipped off during rasterization on MacOS Open

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

servo/font-kit#194 · Opened May 9, 2022
Implement font fallback for macOS Open

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

servo/font-kit#193 · Opened Mar 27, 2022
'load_font_table' returns None for BASE table Open

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

servo/font-kit#182 · Opened Apr 30, 2021
servo-fontconfig causes issues with fontconfig 2.23 in ubuntu 20.06(or others) Open

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

servo/font-kit#181 · Opened Feb 27, 2021
Split sources into a separate crate. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

servo/font-kit#180 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Jan 30, 2021
all_fonts throws too much information away Open

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

servo/font-kit#178 · Opened Jan 4, 2021
Load fonts faster on Windows than on Mac OSX Open

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

servo/font-kit#175 · Opened Dec 15, 2020
Readme example compile failed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

servo/font-kit#167 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 27, 2020
Determine whether a font is supported on Mac Open

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

servo/font-kit#163 · Opened Sep 13, 2020
Font transform is not interpretted the same way on different platforms during rasterization. Open

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

servo/font-kit#155 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 4, 2020
`SystemSource::new()` very slow on Linux, asks fontconfig to scan all system fonts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

servo/font-kit#148 · 3 comments · Opened May 19, 2020
Make `select_best_match` support multiple languages. Open

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

servo/font-kit#146 · 2 comments · Opened May 13, 2020
Assertion failure in reset_freetype_face_char_size Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

servo/font-kit#133 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 5, 2020
Anonymous Pro does not render correctly on freetype (linux) Open

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

servo/font-kit#131 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 26, 2020
Segfault when compiled for release on Mac Open

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

servo/font-kit#129 · Opened Feb 24, 2020
panic and other errors when rendering with a pcf font Open

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

servo/font-kit#127 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2020
Support statically linking against fontconfig and FreeType Open

enhancement fontconfig

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

servo/font-kit#120 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2020
Unable to load fonts when linking with lld Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

servo/font-kit#114 · Opened Dec 6, 2019
Use static-assertions to check that fonts are indeed Send and Sync Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

servo/font-kit#108 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2019
Add support for stroked glyph outlines Open

enhancement

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

servo/font-kit#103 · Opened Oct 1, 2019
Looking up CSS generic families Open

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

servo/font-kit#100 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 12, 2019
Default Caseless Matching of possibly-localized family names Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

servo/font-kit#99 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2019
Support resolving of default Windows fonts Open

bug

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

servo/font-kit#90 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2019
Create an issue template Open

good first issue help wanted

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

servo/font-kit#83 · Opened Jul 14, 2019
Fallback list in select_best_match Open

bug enhancement

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

servo/font-kit#62 · 4 comments · Opened May 24, 2019
Different behavior of Source::all_families Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

servo/font-kit#52 · Opened May 18, 2019

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