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Free and open source software font engine for your Mac. #Font engine  #Font conversion  #Graphic library  #Font  #Engine  #Library  

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FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images).

FreeType can be used in display servers, font conversion tools, graphics libraries, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.

Note that FreeType is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, ‘hollowing’, etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of font files.

By default, FreeType supports the following font formats. · TrueType fonts (and collections) · Type 1 fonts · CID-keyed Type 1 fonts · CFF fonts · OpenType fonts (both TrueType and CFF variants) · SFNT-based bitmap fonts · X11 PCF fonts · Windows FNT fonts · BDF fonts (including anti-aliased ones) · PFR fonts · Type 42 fonts (limited support)

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What's new in FreeType 2.6.2:

  • IMPORTANT CHANGES:
  • The auto-hinter now supports stem darkening, to be controlled by the new `no-stem-darkening' and `darkening-parameters' properties. This is an experimental feature contributed by Nikolaus Waxweiler, and the interface might change in a future release.
  • By default, stem darkening is now switched off (for both the CFF engine and the auto-hinter). The main reason is that you need linear alpha blending and gamma correction to get correct rendering results, and the latter is not yet available in most freely available rendering stacks like X11. Applying stem darkening without proper gamma correction leads to far too dark rendering results.
  • The meaning of `FT_RENDER_MODE_LIGHT' has been slightly modified. It now essentially means `no hinting along the horizontal axis'; in particular, no change of glyph advance widths. Consequently, the auto-hinter is used for all scalable font formats except for CFF. It is planned that other font-specific rendering engines (TrueType, Type 1) will follow.
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FreeType 2.6.2

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