# libschrift **Repository Path**: taojhlwkl/libschrift ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: libschrift - **Description**: No description available - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: ISC - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2025-04-01 - **Last Updated**: 2025-04-01 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README libschrift ========== *libschrift* is a lightweight TrueType font rendering library. libschrift aims to: - Be as simple and easy-to-use as possible. See: - Make correct (as in artifact-free, Unicode-aware etc.) font rendering easy to achieve. - Be reasonably secure, which especially means to not crash, leak memory / resources or expose major security vulnerabilities on corrupted / malicious / random inputs. Features -------- - Unicode support - Very small! (~1500 LoC) - No dependencies on anything other than the C standard library (POSIX / WINAPI are only used for memory mapping, which is not essential) - Compatible with any C99 compiler - Highly portable! Some versions have been tested on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows, iOS, and macOS! Limitations ----------- - Unicode is the only supported text encoding. - Support for most TrueType (.ttf) and certain OpenType (.otf) fonts. No bitmap or PostScript fonts. - No hinting. Especially no auto-hinting as found in FreeType2. - No color emojis. Building -------- On **Unix-like systems** including Mac OS, you can use `make && make install` to install libschrift as a system-wide library. Since it is statically linked, you only need the library files for development. Users of your projects do not need to install libschrift. On **Windows**, you can either use the provided MSVC project, or compile with make via MSYS, or simply compile manually. **Alternatively**, you can always copy-paste `schrift.c` and `schrift.h` into your own projects source folder. Documentation ------------- For documentation on how to use libschrift in your own projects, refer to the *schrift(3)* man page, the source code of the bundled *demo*, as well as the header file *schrift.h*. You can view the man page in your browser at Progress -------- In terms of both security and performance, libschrift is already pretty solid. However, it is still missing some important features, like right-to-left text support. Visual Quality -------------- A screenshot of the demo program: ![demo screenshot](resources/demo-screenshot.png) Contributing ------------ Bug Reports, Suggestions, Questions, Criticism, Pull Requests and Patches are all welcome! You can also support the project by buying me (Thomas Oltmann) a coffee, if you'd like: