Homepage: https://www.freetype.org
FreeType is a freely available software library to render fonts.
It is written in C, designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats.
The FreeType 2 API reference for the latest release, along with additional documentation can be found online at:
Refer to DOCGUIDE.md for more information
FreeType supports compilation via meson, GNU make and CMake
Refer to INSTALL.md for more information
FreeType is dual-licensed under the FTL and GPLv2.
Refer to COPYING.md for more information
Please submit bug reports at
If you have suggestions for improving FreeType, they should be sent
to the freetype-devel
mailing list.
For instructions on compiling FreeType, see INSTALL.md
Please send merge requests to our gitlab repo at:
Alternatively, you can send patches to the freetype-devel
mailing list.
Details on the process can be found here:
Any non-trivial contribution should first be discussed with the maintainers
via the freetype-devel
mailing list.
The preferred way of communication with the FreeType team is using e-mail lists.
- [email protected]
- General use and discussion
- [email protected]
- Engine internals, Porting etc
- [email protected]
- Announcements
- [email protected]
- Git repository tracker
The lists are moderated; For more information, see
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct (CoC). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms, which you can find in the following link:
CoC issues may be raised to the project maintainers at the following address:
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) 2006-2021 by
David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg.
This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used,
modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project
license, COPYING.md. By continuing to use, modify, or distribute
this file you indicate that you have read the license and understand
and accept it fully.