FreeType is a software library to render fonts.

Technologies
c, autotools, meson
Topics
library, rendering, fonts, opentype, truetype
FreeType is a software library to render fonts.
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.
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Successful Projects

Contributor
Anurag Thakur
Mentor
Werner Lemberg
Organization
FreeType
Integrate FreeType with alternative font rendering engines
Investigate and implement alternative font renderers in FreeType, including: • font-rs • font-go • fontdue • Pathfinder Thus the project is about...
Contributor
Jiang Zhirui
Mentor
Werner Lemberg, suzuki toshiya
Organization
FreeType
Improve FreeType demo program ftinspect
In this project, the Qt-based ftinspect program in the FreeType Demo Programs project is improved from a skeleton with extremely limited...