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fontconfig

v0.11.0 Growing

Safe, higher-level wrapper around the Fontconfig library

MIT Edition 2021 MSRV 1.77
Text processing #search#font#fontconfig#wrapper

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 27d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 112 crates
  • โœ“Team maintained (3 owners)
  • โœ“Tiny footprint (13KB, 1 deps)

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Downloads
318.3K
Dependents
112
Releases
15
Size
13KB

Deep Insights

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Stable downloads

29.2K downloads in the last 30 days (974/day). Volume is roughly flat compared to the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

112 crates depend on fontconfig. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Team maintained

This crate is maintained by a team (3 owners), reducing bus-factor risk and ensuring continuity.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 11+ years old, fontconfig hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Minimal dependencies

Only 1 direct dependencies. Lean dependency tree means faster builds and lower supply chain risk.

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Compact crate

At 12KB, fontconfig is lightweight. Small crate size correlates with focused, well-scoped functionality.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include font-enumeration, kickoff, remenu, canrust, yofi. When high-quality crates choose fontconfig, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 14/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 16/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 16/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 15/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
895/day avg-48%
05001K2K4/265/146/16/197/77/24

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.8.0
42%
v0.10.0
32%
v0.6.0
12%
v0.9.0
8%
v0.5.0
5%

Release Timeline

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Maintainers

Dependencies
1
direct dependencies
Dependents
112
crates depend on fontconfig

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