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 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 provides a simple and easy-to-use API to access font content in a uniform way, independently of the file format. Additionally, some format-specific APIs can be used to access special data in the font file.
By default, FreeType 2 supports the following font formats. TrueType fonts, 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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