Top 4 C++ Font Projects

mactype

44 9,465 4.4 C++

Better font rendering for Windows.

Project mention: GTK: On fractional scales, fonts and hinting | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-07

I'm curious - when you were doing research into the mechanics of hinting options, did you stumble onto any relevant discussion around allowing custom pixel geometries to be defined, to enable hinting on modern OLED / WRBG displays? There's a good thread on the topic here[0], with some people referring to it as 'ClearType 2' on the MS side [1]. On the oss side I know FreeType theoretically supports this[2], but I can't quite figure out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work.
This is great work btw.
[0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595
[2]: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_render...

fontbm

1 222 1.0 C++

BMFont compatible, cross-platform (Linux/macOS/Windows) command line bitmap font generator (FreeType2 based).
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gpu-font-rendering

1 75 10.0 C++

GPU font rendering from vector outlines demonstration

Project mention: GPU Font Rendering | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-19

ffont

1 15 0.0 C++

Fegeya FFont, Unique CLI ASCII Art generator with cool fonts!

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