Show HN: Taetype – a complete font engine for Rust and WASM

Category: library

Tags: font-engine, rust, wasm, opentype, woff2, subsetting, shaping

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Taetype is a pure Rust font engine decompiled from taepdf, offering decode, instance, subset, and shaping of TTF, OTF, TTC, and WOFF2 fonts without external dependencies or browser APIs. It runs as WASM or native library, filling a niche for client-side document generation and font optimization with robust OpenType feature support.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/silly-tae/taetype · Rust · MIT · 1 stars

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