Projects

The FreeType Project

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 libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other ... [More] 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]

DejaVu fonts

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.

Fontmatrix

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 overly long lists in dialogs. Basically, Fontmatrix helps you to do three things: * Activating ... [More] and deactivating fonts * Tagging fonts with sets * Generating font “books” as PDF. [Less]

HarfBuzz

HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.

Junicode

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 project used Fontforge's SFD files and TTX XML format. There are also TrueType hinting ... [More] instructions, with a large part written in XML and converted with Xgridfit to be included in the fonts by Fontforge. [Less]

WenQuanYi (Spring of Letters)

This project aims to develop the most complete, standard compliant, high-quality Chinese (and CJKV) fonts and resources, including bitmap and outline fonts of various styles. We also develop web-based tools to facilitate online font-dev collaborations.

php-font-lib

A library to read, parse, export and make subsets of different types of font files.

LASi

libLASi is library that provides a C++ stream output interface ( with operator << ) for creating PostScript documents that can contain characters from any of the script and symbol blocks supported in Unicode and by the Pango layout engine.

pyftgl

FTGL is a free, open source library to enable developers to use arbitrary fonts in their OpenGL applications. Unlike other OpenGL font libraries FTGL uses standard font file formats and the FreeType font library to open the fonts. PyFTGL in turn wraps the functionality of FTGL into a Python module ... [More] so that it can be used in conjunction with PyOpenGL. [Less]

xfstt

TrueType Font Server for X11.