I built an open-source text engine for Unity with full Unicode 17.0 support - 3-21x faster + emoji

[twilit cobalt]

I was struggling with the built-in text solution in Unity - no proper
Arabic/Hebrew/Hindi support, no emoji, font atlases causing git conflicts,
poor performance. Couldn't find anything that actually solves this properly,
so I built my own text engine from scratch

UniText uses HarfBuzz + FreeType (same stack as Chrome and Firefox),
passes 891,757 official Unicode conformance tests, and runs 3-21x faster
with zero GC allocations. 150+ languages, full BiDi, native color emoji
from system fonts

It's free and open source - I need real feedback from real projects
before going further with it

GitHub: https://github.com/LightSideMeowshop/unitext
Docs: https://unity.lightside.media/unitext/docs

[lusty grotto]

Very impressive!

Is there a relatively straightforward conversion for existing TMP heavy projects?

[empty idol]

Cool project! Thank you for your contribution to open source!

[twilit cobalt]

The project migration and analysis tool is on my radar, but right now I’m deeply focused on a new, revolutionary approach to text rendering and on UniText 2.0.0 overall, which will include a huge number of improvements both internally and externally for the end user (you)

[twilit cobalt]

Thank you so much! Expect UniText 2.0.0 this weekend. it’s going to be a completely new product❤️