Introduction

Most image-generation solutions are either a headless Chromium instance eating 300 MB of RAM, or a minimal SVG-to-PNG renderer that falls apart the moment you need real CSS. Takumi is neither.

It's a purpose-built Rust pipeline — CSS parsing, layout, compositing, image output — that runs the same in a serverless edge function, a Node.js server, a browser, or directly as a Rust crate. Reach for headless Chrome when you need full DOM and JavaScript fidelity. Reach for Satori when minimal layout is enough. Reach for Takumi when you want real CSS without a browser.