UniText

Open-source Unicode text engine for Unity

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

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Note

Looking for production use? UniText 2.0 adds SDF/MSDF rendering, font families, variable fonts, effects, 3D text, Zstd compression, and much more. Available on Asset Store and direct from Light Side.

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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

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

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Online Documentation
• Website

License

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

Tip

Contact: unity@lightside.media — questions, feedback, commercial inquiries.

Third-Party Software

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.