NEWS

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systemfonts 1.3.2 (2026-03-05)

• Fixed a compilation error when compiling against very old versions of Freetype
• Avoid compiler warnings when comparing doubles to enum
• Work around broken PingFangUI.ttc on macOS (#147)
• Guard against zero-length input (#151)

systemfonts 1.3.1 (2025-10-01)

• Fixed a sanitizer issue with converting variation axis names to tags
• Avoid spurious build issues on old macOS systems
• Avoid writing font files to the user directory during test

systemfonts 1.3.0 (2025-09-30)

• Fixed a bug in the URL generation for Google Font imports
• Added support for Bunny Fonts imports (#132)
• Begin deprecation of bold argument in favour of weight throughout package
• Improve messaging in require_font()
• Fonts are automatically added to the session when an import is created (#131)
• Fixed a bug in converting font weights as reported by macOS into ISO-style weight used by systemfonts and FreeType
• require_font() now better handles lack of internet access
• Added plot_glyph_stats() to provide visual explanation for various glyph measures
• font_info() now returns the PostScript name of the font in the name column
• Added support for variable fonts throughout the package. Other packages will need to be upgraded to take advantage of this. A new function font_variation() can be used to define coords for the variation axes
• Fixed a bug in webfont download on Windows where fontfiles would become corrupted (#134)
• Fixed an issue in textshaping where conflicting DLL names resulted in the R process inability to render text if textshaping was loaded first (textshaping#36)
• Add a way to test if the freetype version matches between systemfonts and another package match
• Added a name column to the output of glyph_info() to report the name of the glyph is provided by the font
• Added a charmaps column to the output of font_info() to report the name of the character maps provided by the font
• Cached faces are now reference counted when they are handed off to another package and it is the other packages' responsibility to decrement the reference by calling FT_Done_Face() when finished with it.

systemfonts 1.2.3 (2025-04-30)

• Added fonts_as_import() to create stylesheet urls for embedding of fonts in HTML and SVG
• Added two C-level functions for getting glyph outline and bitmap information

systemfonts 1.2.2 (2025-04-04)

• Fix compilation on macOS when the obj-c++ compiler fails to pick up the right obj-c++ version (#122)
• add_fonts() now supports urls as well as file paths (#124)

systemfonts 1.2.1 (2025-01-20)

• Fix a memory issue when adding new fonts with add_fonts()
• Default to not downloading woff2 files from Google Fonts since it is poorly supported on many systems
• Fixed a bug in get_from_font_squirrel() where the font wasn't placed in the user specified location

systemfonts 1.2.0 (2025-01-16)

• Providing the font name as the family should now result in better matching
• Improved the fallback options for Windows so that as many scripts are now covered
• Add infrastructure to add uninstalled font files to the search path used for font matching
• Add facilities to download and register fonts from web repositories such as Google Fonts and Font Squirrel
• Add require_font() that does it's best to ensure that a given font is available after being called.
• Added functions for extracting outline and raster representation of glyphs

systemfonts 1.1.0 (2024-05-15)

• match_fonts() have been added as a vectorized and generalized version of match_font(). In the process match_font() has been deprecated in favour of match_fonts()
• Two internal functions for converting weight and width names to integers have been exported
• Fix a segfault on macOS when the system encounters a corrupted font collection (#113)

systemfonts 1.0.6 (2024-03-07)

• Fix a bug in shape_string() using vjust = 1 (#85)

systemfonts 1.0.4 (2022-02-11)

• Use Courier New as default mono font on macOS instead of Courier to avoid issues between FreeType and Courier (#105)

• Provide a fallback solution to the setup of the CRAN windows builder so that fonts can be discovered (#87)

systemfonts 1.0.3 (2021-10-13)

• Avoid warning when including the systemfonts header (#77)
• Fix size selection of non-scalable fonts when the requested size is bigger than the available
• Fix compilation bug when systemfont is used in C packages (#76)

systemfonts 1.0.2 (2021-05-11)

• Ensure compitability with freetype <= 2.4.11 (#70, @jan-glx)
• Prepare for UCRT compilation

systemfonts 1.0.1 (2021-02-09)

• Fix a bug in font matching on Windows when matching monospace fonts
• Fix a bug in reset_font_cache() on mac that would cause a system crash if the cache was not filled in advance (#67)

systemfonts 1.0.0 (2021-02-01)

• Tweak size determination for non-scalable fonts
• Fix bug when switching between scalable and non-scalable fonts in the cache
• Add utility for querying font fallbacks at both the R and C level
• Add C-level API for finding emoji embeddings in strings
• Add utility for getting weight of font from C code
• Add utility for getting family name of font from C code
• Add font weight and width to the output of font_info()

systemfonts 0.3.2 (2020-09-29)

• Fix compiled code for old R versions
• Changes to comply with next cpp11 version

systemfonts 0.3.1 (2020-09-08)

• Fixed warnings on CRAN LTO machine

systemfonts 0.3.0 (2020-09-01)

• Added get_cached_face() so that other packages might retrieve FT_Face objects from the cache.
• Adapted cpp11
• Add infrastructure for setting OpenType font features on a registered font with either register_font() or the new register_variant(), along with the font_feature() function.

systemfonts 0.2.3 (2020-06-09)

• Replace the buggy Freetype cache subsystem with own implementation
• Fix indexing bug in glyph_metrics()

systemfonts 0.2.2 (2020-05-14)

• Fix remaining valgrind issues by fixing the included font-manager code
• Rewrite the text shaping algorithm to make it more future proof
• Work around a nasty freetype bug in their cache subsystem

systemfonts 0.2.1 (2020-04-29)

• Various fixes to the correctness of compiled code

systemfonts 0.2.0 (2020-04-16)

• Add string_widths_dev() and string_metrics_dev() to request the current graphic device for string widths and metrics.
• Add system for registering non-system fonts for look-up.
• systemfonts will now detect user-installed fonts on Windows (possible after the 1806 update)
• Font lookup is now cached for faster performance. The caching will get flushed when new fonts are added to the registry, or manually with reset_font_cache()
• Systemfonts now provide querying of font information with font_info() and glyph_info()
• Basic string shaping is now provided with shape_string()
• Line width calculation is now available with string_width() (ignores presence of newlines, use shape_string() for more complicated strings)
• Added str_split_emoji() for splitting of strings into substrings of emoji and non-emoji glyphs
• Provide a header file for easy use from within C in other packages
• Fix memory management issues on Mac
• Fix handling of erroneous font files on windows

systemfonts 0.1.1 (2019-07-01)

• Fix compilation on systems with a very old fontconfig version (Solaris)

systemfonts 0.1.0 (2019-06-28)

• First version with match_font() and system_fonts() capabilities. More to come.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.