The font-shaping and SVG crate families can't be bumped right now
without splitting a transitive crate into two versions in `Cargo.lock`.
Every blocker is an upstream crate that hasn't caught up, so this PR
just records the reasons inline in `Cargo.toml` instead of forcing
duplicates.
## Blockers
| Crate | Wanted | Blocked by |
|---|---|---|
| `skrifa` 0.42 → 0.43 | | `vello_cpu` → `glifo` 0.1.1 pins `skrifa
^0.42` (no newer `glifo`) |
| `font-types` 0.11 → 0.12 | | same `glifo` chain pins `font-types` 0.11
|
| `harfrust` 0.7 → 0.10 | | needs `read-fonts` 0.40 / `font-types` 0.12;
`glifo` pins 0.39 / 0.11 |
| `resvg` 0.45 → 0.47 | | `winit` 0.30's `sctk-adwaita` stuck on
`tiny-skia ^0.11`; resvg 0.47 needs 0.12 |
| `image` 0.25.6 → 0.25.10 | | needs `png` 0.18, which only matches
resvg once resvg is on `tiny-skia` 0.12 |
On `main`, epaint and `glifo` *share* `skrifa` 0.42 / `font-types` 0.11,
so there is a single copy of each. Any epaint-side bump splits them.
resvg 0.46 avoids the tiny-skia split but its `fontconfig-parser`
duplicates `roxmltree`.
Revisit once `glifo` (for the font stack) and `sctk-adwaita` (for
tiny-skia) update.
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Introduces live inspection for running egui apps over a small TCP
request/response protocol, plus the `egui::Plugin` that serves it.
This is the minimal surface to get the egui mcp in, we may want to
extend this in the future to add support for the inspection gui.
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* Related to #56 (Improve text — tracking issue)
## Summary
This PR integrates [harfrust](https://crates.io/crates/harfrust) (a
pure-Rust port of HarfBuzz) into epaint's text layout pipeline,
replacing the character-by-character glyph positioning with proper
OpenType text shaping.
### What this enables
- **GPOS kerning**: most modern fonts only ship kerning in GPOS tables
(not the legacy `kern` table). Pairs like "AV", "VA", "AT" are now
properly tightened.
- **GSUB substitutions**: ligatures (fi, fl), contextual alternates, and
other OpenType features.
- **Combining marks**: diacritics (e.g. ɔ̃) are positioned via anchor
tables instead of being rendered as standalone replacement glyphs.
### Before/After
#### Kerning, etc.
<img width="838" height="726" alt="before_main"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f0f26d5f-b117-43a6-b39c-ea40d2e73836"
/>
<img width="838" height="726" alt="after_harfrust"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d983e5da-486c-4f39-bd4f-5782a90c6b39"
/>
#### Ligatures
<img width="1117" height="698" alt="before_closeup"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7a3b08b4-cf6f-45b7-98ba-07c473cd3b02"
/>
<img width="1117" height="698" alt="after_closeup"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6cfc5f21-d32f-4f09-be0c-59c8c553d44f"
/>
### Architecture
The shaping integrates into the existing pipeline without changing the
public API:
1. **`Font::segment_into_runs`** — segments text into contiguous runs by
font face (grapheme-cluster aware, never splits combining sequences)
2. **`FontFace::shape_text`** — calls harfrust to shape each run,
returning glyph IDs + positioned advances/offsets
3. **`layout_shaped_run`** — emits `Glyph` structs from the shaping
output, with NOTDEF fallback to other font faces for missing glyphs
4. **Buffer recycling** — `FontsImpl` pools a `harfrust::UnicodeBuffer`
to avoid per-layout allocations
### Disclaimer
I'm far from being a good Rust programmer. Claude Code did most of the
heavy lifting here. I did my best and used my limited knowledge to avoid
making too many mistakes. If this PR isn't up to quality standards,
please don't hesitate to close it.
## Test plan
- [x] `cargo test -p epaint` — all 18 text tests pass, including 6 new
ones
- [x] `cargo clippy -p epaint --all-features` — clean
- [x] `cargo fmt` — clean
- [ ] Snapshot tests need regeneration (expected: shaping changes glyph
positions)
- New tests added:
- `test_gpos_kerning` — verifies GPOS kerning tightens "AV", "VA", "AT"
pairs
- `test_combining_diacritics` — combining tilde doesn't add extra width
- `test_shaping_basic_latin` — sanity check for Latin text
- `test_shaping_empty_string` — empty input doesn't panic
- `test_shaping_multiple_newlines` — newline splitting works correctly
- `test_shaping_mixed_font_fallback` — Latin + emoji in same string
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Enable these new clippy lints and fix all warnings:
* `format_push_string` — use `write!` instead of `s += &format!(…)` to
avoid extra allocations
* `ignored_unit_patterns` — use `()` instead of `_` when matching unit
* `missing_fields_in_debug` — ensure manual `Debug` impls account for
all fields
* `needless_raw_string_hashes` — remove unnecessary `r#` on string
literals
* `ref_option` — prefer `Option<&T>` over `&Option<T>` in function
signatures
* [x] I have followed the instructions in the PR template
This updates wgpu to v29 across the egui crate stack.
There a a few API changes due to the requirement to provide a display
handle up front to properly support GLES on linux. I have done my best
to make the api changes as reasonable as possible, but I don't have all
the greater project context, so lmk if things should be done a bit
differently.
I've also updated glow to 0.17 to make cargo deny happy, there are no
source changes. I'm not sure how you want to land these.
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This was mostly from last month, but I never got around to submitting
it.
This PR adds font variation coordinates to the `TextFormat` struct, and
uses them when rendering text. The coordinates are stored in a
`SmallVec`; I've chosen to store up to 2 inline, which makes it take up
24 bytes (the minimum possible for a `SmallVec`). The variation axis
tags are stored as the `font_types::Tag` type, which I've chosen to
re-export from `epaint::text`.
The variation coordinates are resolved to a `skrifa::Location` during
font rendering/scaling, and are cached in the same way as all the other
scaled metrics. I've renamed the `ScaledMetrics` struct to
`StyledMetrics`, since it now also contains the resolved variation
coordinates. I haven't benchmarked the performance of text layout with
variation coordinates, but the existing text layout performance is
unchanged.
I've replaced the API for manually overriding a font's weight
(https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/7790) with an API for manually
overriding any variation coordinates via `FontTweak`. This should
support the same use case as #7790 while being substantially more
flexible.
I have *not* yet added any higher-level API for mapping style attributes
(weight, width, slant, etc) to variation coordinates or to different
font faces within a single family. That's a pretty huge can of worms,
and it'd involve rethinking the split between `FontId` and `TextFormat`
(and whether `FontId` is so big that we should provide a way to reuse
it). This API is intentionally pretty low-level for now.
Likewise, I've intentionally not used variation coordinates when
computing a font's row height. I can't think of any fonts that change
their vertical metrics depending on variation axes, so this should be
fine for now.
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A number of separate commits to possibly easily revert some of them.
General idea: selectively update dependencies to remove transitive
dependencies and multiple versions etc. As well as updating "major" (the
one that `cargo update` doesn't update) version for some in Cargo.toml.
Rendering pipelines in `vello_cpu` wasn't obvious. Now both are used.
- Followup to https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/7694
- Disables the `traversal` feature of `skrifa` which is not needed
except internally by the fontations project
- Should save a little compile time, and possibly some binary size.
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I'll probably come back to this and clean it up a bit. This PR
reimplements ab_glyph's functionality on top of Skrifa, a somewhat
lower-level font API that's being used in Chrome now.
Skrifa doesn't perform rasterization itself, so I'm using
[vello_cpu](https://github.com/linebender/vello) from the Linebender
project for rasterization. It's still in its early days, but I believe
it's already quite fast. It also supports color and gradient fills, so
color emoji support will be easier.
Skrifa also supports font hinting, which should make text look a bit
nicer / less blurry.
Here's the current ab_glyph rendering:
<img width="1592" height="1068" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2385b66e-23f8-4c6e-b8c2-ea90e0eea4e4"
/>
Here's Skrifa *without* hinting--it looks almost identical, but there
are some subpixel differences, probably due to rasterizer behavior:
<img width="1592" height="1068" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a815f3e9-65ac-4940-bc00-571177bef53d"
/>
Here's Skrifa *with* hinting:
<img width="1592" height="1068" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d6cc0669-3537-4377-bba9-ed5ef09664db"
/>
Hinting does make the horizontal strokes look a bit bolder, which makes
me wonder once again about increasing the font weight from "light" to
"regular".
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### What
From the [lint
description](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html?search=or_fu#or_fun_call):
> The function will always be called. This is only bad if it allocates
or does some non-trivial amount of work.
But also:
> If the function has side-effects, not calling it will change the
semantic of the program, but you shouldn’t rely on that.
>
> The lint also cannot figure out whether the function you call is
actually expensive to call or not.
Still worth it to keep our happy paths clean, imo.
* Closes https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/5889
See the above issue for motivation.
To use glow instead, disable the default features of `eframe` and opt-in
to `glow`.
This also changes egui.rs to use wgpu, which means WebGPU when
available, and WebGL otherwise
## Short bluesky announcement:
We just released egui 0.33.0!
Highlights:
- `egui::Plugin` a improved way to create and access egui plugins
- [kitdiff](https://github.com/rerun-io/kitdiff), a viewer for
egui_kittest image snapshots (and a general image diff tool)
- better kerning (check the diff on
[kitdiff](https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/?url=https://github.com/emilk/egui/pull/7431))
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/971f0493-6dae-42e5-8019-58b74cf5d203
## Relaese Changelog:
egui is an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI for Rust that runs on both web
and native.
Try it now: <https://www.egui.rs/>
egui development is sponsored by [Rerun](https://www.rerun.io/), a
startup building an SDK for visualizing streams of multimodal data.
# egui 0.33.0 changelog
Highlights from this release:
- `egui::Plugin` a improved way to create and access egui plugins
- [kitdiff](https://github.com/rerun-io/kitdiff), a viewer for
egui_kittest image snapshots (and a general image diff tool)
- better kerning
### Improved kerning
As a step towards using [parley](https://github.com/linebender/parley)
for font rendering, @valadaptive has refactored the font loading and
rendering code. A result of this (next to the font rendering code being
much nicer now) is improved kerning.
Notice how the c moved away from the k:
### `egui::Plugin` trait
We've added a new trait-based plugin api, meant to replace
`Context::on_begin_pass` and `Context::on_end_pass`.
This makes it a lot easier to handle state in your plugins. Instead of
having to write to egui memory it can live right on your plugin struct.
The trait based api also makes easier to add new hooks that plugins can
use. In addition to `on_begin_pass` and `on_end_pass`, the `Plugin`
trait now has a `input_hook` and `output_hook` which you can use to
inspect / modify the `RawInput` / `FullOutput`.
### kitdiff, a image diff viewer
At rerun we have a ton of snapshots. Some PRs will change most of them
(e.g. [the](https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/pull/11253/files)
[one](https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/?url=https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/pull/11253/files)
that updated egui and introduced the kerning improvements, ~500
snapshots changed!).
If you really want to look at every changed snapshot it better be as
efficient as possible, and the experience on github, fiddeling with the
sliders, is kind of frustrating.
In order to fix this, we've made
[kitdiff](https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/).
You can use it locally via
- `kitdiff files .` will search for .new.png and .diff.png files
- `kitdiff git` will compare the current files to the default branch
(main/master)
Or in the browser via
- going to https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/ and pasting a PR or
github artifact url
- linking to kitdiff via e.g. a github workflow
`https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/?url=<link_to_pr_or_artefact>`
To install kitdiff run `cargo install --git
https://github.com/rerun-io/kitdiff`
Here is a video showing the kerning changes in kitdiff ([try it
yourself](https://rerun-io.github.io/kitdiff/?url=https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/pull/11253/files)):
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/74640af1-09ba-435a-9d0c-2cbeee140c8f
### Migration guide
- `egui::Mutex` now has a timeout as a simple deadlock detection
- If you use a `egui::Mutex` in some place where it's held for longer
than a single frame, you should switch to the std mutex or parking_lot
instead (egui mutexes are wrappers around parking lot)
- `screen_rect` is deprecated
- In order to support safe areas, egui now has `viewport_rect` and
`content_rect`.
- Update all usages of `screen_rect` to `content_rect`, unless you are
sure that you want to draw outside the `safe area` (which would mean
your Ui may be covered by notches, system ui, etc.)
Adds an accessibility inspector plugin that shows the current AccessKit
tree:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/78f4f221-1bd2-4ce4-adf5-fc3b00f5c16c
Macos has a built in accessibility inspector, but it doesn't seem to
work with AccessKit / eframe so this provides some insight into the
accesskit state.
This also showed a couple issues that are easy to fix:
- [ ] Links show up as `Label` instead of links
- [ ] Not all supported actions are advertised (e.g. scrolling)
- [ ] The resize handles in windows shouldn't be focusable
- [ ] Checkbox has no value
- [ ] Menus should have the button as parent widget (not 100% sure on
this one)
Currently the plugin lives in the demo app, but I think it should be
moved somewhere else. Maybe egui_extras?
This could also be relevant for #4650
Adds a helper to quickly see whats going on in a kittest test.
Not all test have snapshots, but when debugging tests it might still be
useful to see whats actually going on, so this adds a helper fn that
renders a snapshot image to a temporary file and opens it with the
default image viewer:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08785850-0a12-4572-b9b5-cea36951081c
