FreeType
FreeType is a software library to render fonts.
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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Projects
Contributor
Ahmet Göksu
Mentor
Werner Lemberg
Organization
FreeType
Integrating ftbench into FreeType's Build Structure: A Performance Benchmarking Automation Project
The goal of this project is to improve the ftbench program in FreeType's build structure for easier performance testing. The current manual process...