#3425·iced

ttf-parser in unmaintained

Author: Mec-iSCreated Aug 14, 2026Updated Aug 14, 2026
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What happened?

According to the advisories in cargo-deny, when running cargo deny:

bash
error[unmaintained]: `ttf-parser` is unmaintained
    ┌─ /github/workspace/Cargo.lock:433:1
    │
433 │ ttf-parser 0.25.1 registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
    │ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ unmaintained advisory detected
    │
    ├ ID: RUSTSEC-2026-0192
    ├ Advisory: https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2026-0192
    ├ The author of `ttf-parser` has stated that the crate is unmaintained and will not receive further fixes (see the referenced issue).
      
      ## Alternative(s)
      
      - [`skrifa`](https://crates.io/crates/skrifa), an actively maintained TrueType and OpenType font parsing crate, part of the Google Fonts "oxidize" (`fontations`) project.
    ├ Announcement: https://github.com/harfbuzz/ttf-parser/issues/217
    ├ Solution: No safe upgrade is available!
    ├ ttf-parser v0.25.1

What is the expected behavior?

should use maintained alternative

Version

master

Operating System

macOS

Do you have any log output?

bash