Install via UPM

Add to Unity Package Manager using this URL

https://www.pkglnk.dev/lightsidekittens-unitext.git

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## Installation

Add **UniText** to your Unity project via Package Manager:

1. Open **Window > Package Manager**
2. Click **+** > **Add package from git URL**
3. Enter:
```
https://www.pkglnk.dev/lightsidekittens-unitext.git
```

[![pkglnk](https://www.pkglnk.dev/badge/lightsidekittens-unitext.svg?style=pkglnk)](https://www.pkglnk.dev/pkg/lightsidekittens-unitext)

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Unity UI 1.0.0 UI 1.0.0

README

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

Installation

Open Window > Package Manager
Click + > Add package from git URL...

Enter:

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

Quick Start

Select any GameObject with RectTransform
Add Component > UniText
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

License

UniText 1.0 is free and open-source under the 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.

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