#true-type-font #wgpu #text #true-type

wgpu_glyph

A fast text renderer for wgpu, powered by glyph_brush

24 breaking releases

Uses new Rust 2024

0.28.0 Mar 12, 2026
0.26.0 Aug 19, 2025
0.23.0 Dec 10, 2024
0.22.0 Jan 16, 2024
0.3.1 Jun 9, 2019

#150 in Graphics APIs

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11,152 downloads per month
Used in 32 crates (5 directly)

MIT license

90KB
1K SLoC

wgpu_glyph

Warning

This crate has been superseded by glyphon.

glyphon has a simpler design that fits better with wgpu. Furthermore, it is built on top of cosmic-text, which supports many more advanced text use cases.

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A fast text renderer for wgpu, powered by glyph_brush.

Examples

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Dependencies

~5.5–8.5MB
~158K SLoC