FreeType font engine

Monotype Imaging has an extensive library of high quality multilingual fonts for use with FreeType.

FreeType is the leading open-source font rendering engine. It has been successfully deployed in a wide variety of commercial products including computers, mobile phones, PDAs and game systems by companies such as Motorola, Nokia, Sharp and Sony to name a few.

FreeType is a very flexible, compact font software engine that supports all the popular font formats including: bitmap, Type 1, TrueType and OpenType®. FreeType was developed in ANSI C for use with standard C compilers, and integrates well with graphics libraries and text layout engines such as ICU and Pango. FreeType is being continuously enhanced and is currently available as version 2.

All of the fonts offered by Monotype Imaging can be licensed for use with FreeType. Monotype Imaging works with software and hardware developers who need high quality fonts for integrating with the FreeType into their product.

FreeType supports a variety of rendering formats including black & white, grayscale, and sub-pixel for LCD. Ascender can work with a developer to tune fonts for particular display quality settings.

Monotype Imaging has developed enhancements to FreeType to address the needs of TV, Set Top Box, and mobile device developers. For example, Monotype Imaging provides an SDK with a version of FreeType enhanced with Closed Captioning effects. Monotype Imaging can also offer customers integration support if desired.

Contact us to learn more about FreeType and how Monotype Imaging can help you with fonts for FreeType.

The FreeType font engine was created by the FreeType Project - complete information is located at http://www.freetype.org.