Today the last FreeType dependency was removed from Blink in https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/7232260

FontConfig was the last client. Because we completed migrating FontConfig font scanning from FreeType to Rust memory-safe Fontations, we could now remove it.

Big thanks to FontConfig maintainer Akira Tagoh for many reviews and support.

Until PDFium moves to Fontations, We still ship FreeType as part of Chromium when bundled with PDFium.

On Android, we saved ~400kb of binary size removing FreeType.

COLRv1 has come to Adobe Illustrator! - What a time to be alive! :) Congratulations to Adobe on that release. Glad to see further support for the format and Adobe seeing the utility in adding support for this format.

Thanks to pointers by @khaled and @underware

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/desktop/new-features/whats-new.html (in the Feburary 2025 release notes)

Here's my ATypI talk on the Rust secure font stack we're working on in the Chrome and Google Fonts teams, powering our open-source font rendering stack, and starting to be featured in Chrome M131 beta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HuxUN-mEIY

Thanks to @atypi for hosting the conference and publishing the talks!

#chrome #fonts #rustlang #ATypI

Here's my BlinkOn 18 talk on our efforts to put Chrome's font stack on safe and secure foundations, with a new Rust-based font stack.
Video: https://youtu.be/xl1Dzn_31-g?si=XmSnkXJes2pCOC0Y
Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vp8VOXbsw67mOleJTq0bYORNxkTwYpVh9F_7PS9IK5I/edit#slide=id.g24da3e3cc39_0_0

https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations

Great progress on this collaboration between Blink Rendering, Google Fonts and Skia, we already have 80% of the use cases running and covered.

#rust #chrome #blink #blinkon18 #googlefonts #fonts #fontstack