mplusfonts

Parametrized bitmap fonts for embedded-graphics, with font rasterization powered by swash.

Adds an optimal subset of M⁺ FONTS to your next embedded Rust project.¹

0.42″ OLED	1.28″ TFT-LCD

Features

• A family of variable-width and monospaced fonts - mplusfonts allows you to choose between three typefaces, with font properties that you will want to specify. Using this crate, you can have font anti-aliasing and font-based kerning on embedded devices, in a no_std environment.
• No font files needed in your project - The mplus! macro generates Rust code for your bitmap font. After expanding the macro and compiling your code, the TrueType fonts that come with this crate are no longer used.
• Includes only the glyphs that you want - The strings attribute helps you find and add characters and character clusters to your bitmap font. You can also specify ranges of characters to include as parameters for the mplus! macro.
• Japanese scripts - Designed by Coji Morishita and licensed under the SIL Open Fonts License (LICENSE), M⁺ FONTS has support for over 5 700 kanji glyphs.² Since this crate is based on M⁺ FONTS, you gain access to all of its features.
• Box-drawing characters - mplusfonts includes a set of characters for terminal emulation and semigraphics. These come in the form of scalable vector graphics aligned to the pixel grid and then converted to bitmap images.

Usage

1. Make sure you have added mplusfonts as a dependency.
2. Enable static text rendering by applying an attribute to your function with string definitions.
3. Create a bitmap font inside your function so that #[strings] can find its helper attributes.
4. Apply #[strings::emit] to the bitmap font definition.
5. Include any additional character ranges in the bitmap font that you need.
6. Have a character style use the bitmap font.
7. You can now start drawing text.
8. Exclude any string literals in your function that are not drawn by using #[strings::skip].

Examples

[dependencies]
mplusfonts = "0.3.2"

#[mplusfonts::strings]
pub fn main() -> Result<(), Infallible> {
    let text = format!("{} KB OK", 16 * 40);

    let mut display: SimulatorDisplay<Rgb565> = SimulatorDisplay::new(Size::new(320, 240));

    #[strings::emit]
    let bitmap_font = mplus!(code(115), BOLD, code_line_height(24), true, 1, 4, '0'..='9');

    let character_style = BitmapFontStyle::new(&bitmap_font, Rgb565::GREEN);

    Text::new(&text, Point::new(20, 20), character_style).draw(&mut display)?;

    let output_settings = OutputSettingsBuilder::new().scale(3).build();

    #[strings::skip]
    Window::new("Simulator", &output_settings).show_static(&display);

    Ok(())
}

For more examples, see the examples folder.

Minimum supported Rust version

The minimum supported Rust version for mplusfonts is 1.85.

License

The source code of mplusfonts is dual-licensed under:

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT License (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Footnotes

1. Rust 2024 is required to build this crate ↩

2. https://mplusfonts.github.io/#variable ↩