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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-11
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Parley - rich text layout library

Cross-app rich text copy/paste for Parley

High quality, consistent text display across applications and platforms is a fundamental part of a good user experience, yet it often depends on embedding cumbersome web browser components. Parley is an open source project building a powerful, independent alternative for rich text layout. By providing a performant library for native desktop and mobile apps, especially in modern languages like Rust, it empowers developers to create resilient, trustworthy, and good looking software without relying on the dominant web ecosystem. This grant will significantly mature Parley by expanding its international text layout capabilities, delivering cross-app rich text copy/paste, and providing performance benchmarks and documentation, making it a cornerstone for a more diverse and sovereign software landscape.

Run by Linebender (open source community)

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).