Chrome trades FreeType for Rust‑based Skrifa to lock down web fonts
Chrome has swapped the C‑based FreeType for Skrifa, a Rust‑written font engine, cutting down security bugs and speeding up font updates. The move leverages Rust’s memory safety to protect users from malicious web fonts and frees engineers from constant fuzz‑testing fixes. This upgrade boosts Chrome’s stability across Android, ChromeOS and Linux.