alexheretic/glyph-brush

Fast GPU cached text rendering

Rust

722

472 commits

updated Jul 9, 2026

See the code

README

glyph-brush

Fast cached text rendering.

glyph_brush

Render API agnostic rasterization & draw caching text rendering. See readme, changelog.

glyph_brush_layout

Text layout for ab_glyph used in glyph_brush. See readme, changelog.

glyph_brush_draw_cache

Rasterization cache for ab_glyph used in glyph_brush. See readme, changelog.

gfx_glyph

glyph_brush wrapper for gfx-rs v0.18 (OpenGL). See readme, changelog.

Examples

cargo run -p glyph_brush --example opengl --release

Also look at the individual crate readmes.

Minimum supported rust compiler

All crates maintained with latest stable rust.

font

render

rust

truetype

Significant stargazers

Linda_pp

1,937 followers · starred May 2024

Tatsuyuki Ishi

256 followers · starred Aug 2017

Dave Smith

175 followers · starred Nov 2020

Chris Simpkins

678 followers · starred Feb 2021

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alexheretic/glyph-brush

Fast GPU cached text rendering

Rust

722

472 commits

updated Jul 9, 2026

See the code

README

glyph-brush

Fast cached text rendering.

glyph_brush

Render API agnostic rasterization & draw caching text rendering. See readme, changelog.

glyph_brush_layout

Text layout for ab_glyph used in glyph_brush. See readme, changelog.

glyph_brush_draw_cache

Rasterization cache for ab_glyph used in glyph_brush. See readme, changelog.

gfx_glyph

glyph_brush wrapper for gfx-rs v0.18 (OpenGL). See readme, changelog.

Examples

cargo run -p glyph_brush --example opengl --release

Also look at the individual crate readmes.

Minimum supported rust compiler

All crates maintained with latest stable rust.

font

render

rust

truetype

Similar repos

linebender/vello

A GPU compute-centric 2D renderer.

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vlang/vglyph

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psyclyx/snail

GPU text and vector rendering via direct Bezier curve evaluation.

nyyManni/msdfgl

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zed-industries/font-kit

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Significant stargazers

Linda_pp

1,937 followers · starred May 2024

Tatsuyuki Ishi

256 followers · starred Aug 2017

Dave Smith

175 followers · starred Nov 2020

Chris Simpkins

678 followers · starred Feb 2021

Languages

Rust

98.8%

GLSL

1.1%