Integrations

C API

valo-capi provides opaque, null-safe handles for native embedders. Every allocated object has a matching valo_*_dispose function.

The committed header is crates/valo-capi/include/valo.h. examples/c/hello.c shows context creation, display-list recording, pixel output and cleanup.

On macOS, the C API can attach to a CAMetalLayer or render into a supplied Metal texture.

SVG

Add valo-svg when the host needs to translate SVG bytes into a display list:

let svg = valo_svg::translate(bytes)?;
builder.draw_display_list(&svg.list);

Translation is best-effort. Unsupported features are returned in svg.missing, allowing the host to log or replace individual elements instead of rejecting the entire document. Embedded raster images can be decoded by the host and supplied during translation.

Native system fonts

The renderer accepts registered font bytes on every platform. Native applications that want installed operating-system fonts can use valo-system-fonts, which implements Valo's FontSource interface.

System font discovery is intentionally separate from valo; it is never pulled into browser builds.