font8x8
v0.3.1 Growing8x8 monochrome bitmap font for rendering.
Quick Verdict
- ✕Not updated for 5+ years
- !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
- ✓Trusted by 348 crates
- ✓Tiny footprint (36KB, 0 deps)
- ✓Permissive license (MIT)
Security
Deep Insights
129.9K downloads in the last 30 days (4.3K/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.
348 crates depend on font8x8. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.
Despite being 8+ years old, font8x8 hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.
font8x8 has no external dependencies — minimal supply chain risk and fast compile times.
At 35KB, font8x8 is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.
Notable dependents include tui-big-text, vga, sensehat-screen, dfe, egui_heatmap. When high-quality crates choose font8x8, it's a strong quality signal.
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Feature Flags
default =["unicode", "std"]