Top 3 C++ Typography Projects

harfbuzz

11 3,195 9.9 C++

HarfBuzz text shaping engine

Project mention: Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-14

For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...
Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.
TextLayoutSampler

1 24 0.0 C++

Utility to display text via multiple Windows API's simultaneously (D2D, DWrite, GDI, GDI+).

Project mention: C++/C# interop for Windows (desktop) applications using WinRT | /r/cpp | 2023-02-16

All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.
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FontSetViewer

1 9 3.9 C++

Utility to display items in an IDWriteFontSet and browse their name strings and preview. (Windows GUI exe)

Project mention: C++/C# interop for Windows (desktop) applications using WinRT | /r/cpp | 2023-02-16

All of them :b (TextLayoutSampler, FontSetViewer, Onnx2Text, LunaSvgSampleTest, BiNums). With the exception of multicolor fonts (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji) and more robust vertical text support for Japanese text, there just haven't been any new APIs since Windows 7 that warrant moving forward for me 🤷‍♂️. Note all of those are fully C++ based, but I'm also working on a pixel format viewer for which I want C# interop to potentially utilize existing Paint.NET imaging/effect plugins.

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