FreeType
A software library to render fonts.
A software library to render fonts.
FreeType font rendering library
FreeType is a freely available software library to render fonts.
It is written in C, designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats.
Some products that use FreeType for rendering fonts on screen or on paper, either exclusively or partially:
- GNU/Linux and other free Unix operating system derivates like FreeBSD or NetBSD;
- iOS, Apple's mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads;
- Android, Google's operating system for smartphones and tablet computers;
- ChromeOS, Google's operating system for laptop computers;
- ReactOS, a free open source operating system based on the best design principles found in the Windows NT architecture;
- Ghostscript, a PostScript interpreter used in many printers.
Counting the above products only, you get more than a billion devices that contain FreeType.
2018 Program
Successful Projects
Contributor
Parth Wazurkar
Mentor
suzuki toshiya, Werner Lemberg, Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Organization
FreeType
Integrating VFlib's TeX format drivers into FreeType
The goal of this project is to add the support of TeX's bitmap font formats (GF, TFM, PK and VF fonts) into FreeType by providing new modules to...