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UniText (Open source limited edition)

Looking for production use? UniText 2.0 adds enhanced Style Core, SDF/MSDF rendering, font families, variable fonts, effects, 3D text, Font compression, and much more.

Available on Asset Store and direct from Light Side.

Open-source Unicode text engine for Unity

Built on HarfBuzz — the same shaping engine behind Chrome, Firefox, Adobe InDesign, and Android.

891,757 Unicode conformance tests passed. Zero failures.

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Key Features

| | Feature | Description | |---|---|---| | 🌐 | 150+ Languages | Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, CJK, and every other Unicode script. One component, automatic font fallback | | 🔄 | Full BiDi | Mixed LTR/RTL with numbers and punctuation renders correctly (UAX #9) | | 😀 | Native Color Emoji | ZWJ sequences, skin tones, flags via system fonts. Zero extra build size | | 🏷️ | Extensible Markup | 15+ built-in modifiers, custom parse rules, shared configurations | | 👆 | Interactive Text | Clickable/hoverable regions with typed events and highlight system |

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Installation

1. Open Window > Package Manager
2. Click + > Add package from git URL...
3. Enter:

   https://github.com/LightSideMeowshop/unitext.git#1.0.0
   

Quick Start

1. Select any GameObject with RectTransform
2. Add Component > UniText
3. Type text — it works. Any language, any direction.

var uniText = gameObject.AddComponent<UniText>();
uniText.FontStack = myFontStack;
uniText.Appearance = myAppearance;
uniText.Text = "Hello, World!";
uniText.Text = "مرحبا بالعالم";          // Arabic
uniText.Text = "Mixed: Hello עולם World"; // BiDi
uniText.Text = "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦🇯🇵";                    // Emoji

Supported Platforms

| Platform | Architectures | |----------|---------------| | Windows | x86, x64, ARM64 | | macOS | x64, Apple Silicon | | Linux | x64 | | Android | ARMv7, ARM64, x86, x64 | | iOS | ARM64 | | WebGL | 2.0 |

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Documentation

• Getting Started
• Online Documentation
• Website

License

UniText 1.0 is free and open-source under the License.

[!TIP] Contact: unity@lightside.media — questions, feedback, commercial inquiries.

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UniText includes the following open-source libraries in its native plugin. See Third-Party Notices.txt for full license texts.

| Library | License | |---------|---------| | HarfBuzz | Old MIT License | | FreeType | FreeType License | | Blend2D | Zlib License | | Zstandard | BSD-3-Clause | | zlib | Zlib License | | libpng | PNG Reference Library License |

Default fonts (Noto Sans, Noto Sans Arabic, Noto Sans Hebrew) — SIL Open Font License v1.1. Thai word segmentation dictionary — derived from ICU, Unicode License V3.

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