Projects tagged ‘font’

FreeType 2 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). It can be used in graphics ... [More] libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well. Note that FreeType 2 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. FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. [Less]

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel.

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has ... [More] been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x. [Less]

Fontconfig is a library for font customization and configuration.

FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own Postscript, TrueType, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, and bitmap (BDF) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you ... [More] convert one format to another, and has support for many Macintosh font formats. [Less]

A typesetting system by Jonathan Kew and SIL International based on a merger of Donald Knuth's TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies (multiple languages, support for AAT and OpenType advanced font features, trivial font installation).

A font manager for Linux. Fontmatrix is aimed at adventurous graphic designers and typesetters who need to manage hundreds and even thousands of fonts for their work – avoiding the need to browse ... [More] overly long lists in dialogs. Basically, Fontmatrix helps you to do three things: * Activating and deactivating fonts * Tagging fonts with sets * Generating font “books” as PDF. [Less]

HarfBuzz is an OpenType Layout engine.

Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists. It is a typeface with 4 fonts, Regular, Bold, Oblique and Bold Oblique. Some fonts have more coverage than others. The ... [More] project used Fontforge's SFD files and TTX XML format. There are also TrueType hinting instructions, with a large part written in XML and converted with Xgridfit to be included in the fonts by Fontforge. [Less]

fntsample is a program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font. The samples are similar in appearance to Unicode charts. Samples can be saved as PDF or PostScript files.