`bevy_text` tracking issue

[ickshonpe]

bevy_text tracking + roadmap

Just a big list of issues, discussions, and PRs for now. I'll clean up and reorganise and a roadmap later.

Fonts

• System fonts support
  Support using system fonts #1325
• Free unused font atlases
  Free unused font atlases #21210
• Rethinking font propagation
  Rethinking Font Propagation #21175
• Font Aliases and Font Registration
  Font Aliases and Font Registration #20974
• Custom thicknesses for Underline and Strikethrough
• Font features support

PRs

• Naive support for system fonts #21396
• Adds basic support for working with system fonts #16365
• New text features #21331
• Font reference counting using hooks #21535
• Remove line_height from TextFont #21180
• Free unused font atlases #21211
• Add support for OpenType features in text (e.g. ligatures, smallcaps) #19020

Layout

• Measurement tracking issue
  UI measurement tracking issue #21576
• Flip coordinates along the Y-axis for Text2d rendering
• Text change detection walks text spans twice
• Inline widget support
• Text writing mode
  Rotation-aware text layout #8998

PRs

• UI text module refactor #21630
• Object-centered text layout #19559
• Remove line_height from TextFont #21180
• UI content transform #9341
• Add support to bevy_ui for units relative to font sizes #21207
• rem units support #21187

Picking

• Drag to select text
• Pick individual text spans
• Pick individual glyphs

PRs

• Add Text2d picking backend #16886

Editing

• Text Input support tracking issue Text input support - Tracking #20885
• Clipboard support
• Rich text editing.

PRs

• bevy_text::input module #20336
• Text input support #20326
• bevy_text::input module with no undo #20763
• Basic clipboard support #19106

Effects and Decorations

• Animated glyphs

PRs

• Text strikethrough and underline colors #21667
• [bevy_text] Enable shifting text position within a Text component #14030

Proposals + Discussions

• Text Styles, revisited (Oct 2025)
  https://hackmd.io/@bevy/B14a0kyTlx
• parley migration
• TextSpan refactor https://hackmd.io/@bevy/H1yZy6F6gg
• Text Style Propagation: Stawman Proposal
  https://hackmd.io/@bevy/rkEtnkfaxe

Rendering

• SDF font rendering
• Vector font rendering
• Adaptive font rendering
• Text materials
• Text stroke (borders drawn around the glyphs)
• Soft text shadows
• Text gradients.
• Text Gizmos
  Text Gizmos #16490

Controversial

PRs

• Remove TextSpans #21226

Examples

• Text specific examples section
  Text Examples #21574
• Custom measure func example
  Custom measure func example #9687

[hukasu]

is #21665 on PRs correct?

[ickshonpe]

No that's a mistake, thought I had already deleted it.

[mirsella]

for reference did a simple demo/POC for how to do an input field supporting mobile device on the web (like egui it use a fake html element in the background and focus it, so the browser shows the device virtual keyboard) https://github.com/mirsella/bevy_mobile_input

[masegraye]

Filed a proposal for the FontSmoothing::SubpixelAntiAliased TODO at #23970 — cross-linking here since it's in bevy_text scope and the parley migration (#22879) left the atlas keying in a shape where it'd compose cleanly.