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A lightweight TrueType font rendering library. Contribute to tomolt/libschrift development by creating an account on GitHub.

libschrift is a lightweight TrueType font rendering library.
It can be seen as a much smaller, but more limited alternative to FreeType2.
Specifically, libschrift aims to:

  • Be as suckless as possible.
    See: https://www.suckless.org/philosophy/
  • Make correct (as in artifact-free, UTF-8 handling etc.)
    font rendering easy-to-use.
  • Be reasonably secure, which especially means to not crash,
    leak memory / resources or expose major security
    vulnerabilities on corrupted / malicious / random input.

Limitations

  • The only available text encoding is UTF-8.
    See: http://www.utf8everywhere.org
  • Support for most TrueType (.ttf) and certain OpenType (.otf) fonts.
    No bitmap or PostScript fonts (for now).
  • No hinting. Especially no auto-hinting like FreeType2.

Documentation
For documentation on how to use libschrift in your own programs,
refer to the (currently incomplete) schrift(3) man page,
the source code of the bundled example program sftdemo,
as well as the header file schrift.h.