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Zean Isnomo edited this page Jul 21, 2026 · 2 revisions

Welcome to the Derakuma wiki and documentation page! Derakuma is a parsing library specifically designed for Fontobene, both for the web, Node.js, or Bun. Imagine Derakuma as the HarfBuzz of vector stroke fonts.

Please note: Derakuma is not a font renderer! You must do the rendering part yourself (which is suprisingly easy). Derakuma only provides the exact drawing commands to be used.

Sample images of Derakuma in action

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  • Newstroke font (native from fontobene/fontobene-fonts) rendered with Canvas2D alongside Derakuma.

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  • Hershey font (known as romans, extracted from LibreCAD, converted into Fontobene) rendered with WebGL.

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