Open source alternatives to TextMeshPro

One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what TextMeshPro does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What TextMeshPro does

Sharp text rendering in Unitycore
Rich text stylingcore
Font assets and fallbacks
Sprites and emoji in text
Text effects like outlines and shadows

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
UniTextUnity text rendering engine with emoji and multi-language support	Replaces it93%	719+1	14	None	Too few	For developers	MIT
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Text effects like outlines and shadows.See the evidence Sharp text rendering in UnitycoreYesOpen-source Unicode text engine for Unity Rich text stylingcoreYes15+ built-in modifiers, custom parse rules Font assets and fallbacksYesOne component, automatic font fallback Sprites and emoji in textYesZWJ sequences, skin tones, flags via system fonts Text effects like outlines and shadowsPartlyFills, outlines, shadows, glow, gradients and textures

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