Top 15 FreeType Alternative and Similar Softwares | Apr 2024

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.

1. libtiff

libtiff Libtiff is a library for reading and writing Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) files. The set also contains command line tools for processing TIFFs.......

2. libtheora

libtheora libtheora is a reference implementation of the Theora video compression format being developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.......

3. PDCLib

PDCLib The public domain C standard library project aims at providing building blocks are so fundamental that they should be available freely, free of restrictions. The library provides a good counterpart to projects like LLVM's libc++ C++ standard library and Pathscale's libcxxrt C++ runtime library. Most C apps, many C++ apps,......

4. FontMap

FontMap FontMap may be used to view and print both installed and external fonts; it can display a table, individual characters, a keyboard view, font description, or whatever text you wish to enter. Individual characters can be displayed in a "full-screen" view and custom table parameters can be set to "zoom"......

5. FontFont

FontFont The world’s largest library of original contemporary typefaces. The FontFont library is recognized as an aesthetic and technical reference among type experts. What makes the library unique is its wide variety of outstanding type designs. The spectrum of styles ranges from tasteful, high-quality text faces to distinctive display fonts that......

6. GLib

GLib The GLib package contains low-level libraries useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading and an object system.......

7. HarfBuzz

HarfBuzz HarfBuzz is a software development library for shaping of Unicode text.......

8. libxslt

libxslt libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. It provides an implementation of XSLT 1.0, plus most of the EXSLT set of processor-portable extensions functions and some of Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions. libxslt is based on libxml2, which it uses for XML parsing, tree manipulation and......

9. Accessibility Toolkit

Accessibility Toolkit ATK (Accessibility Toolkit) provides the set of accessibility interfaces that are implemented by other toolkits and applications. Using the ATK interfaces, accessibility tools have full access to view and control running applications.......

10. libevent

libevent libevent is an asynchronous event notification software library. The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also supports callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.......

11. libogg

libogg Libogg libraries provide the functions required for programs to read or write Ogg formatted bit streams.......

12. GObject Introspection

GObject Introspection GObject introspection is a middleware layer between C libraries (using GObject) and language bindings. The C library can be scanned at compile time and generate a metadata file, in addition to the actual native C library. Then at runtime, language bindings can read this metadata and automatically provide bindings to......

13. Font Finder

Font Finder FontFinder is created for designers, developers and typographers. It allows a user to analyze the font information of any element on a page, copy any piece(s) of that information to the clipboard, and perform inline replacements to test new layouts.......

14. FontDaddy

FontDaddy The best online resource for free fonts. Freeware, public domain and open source fonts. Tens of thousands of free fonts for Mac and PC. Download for free!......

15. fontconfig

fontconfig Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access. Fontconfig can: 1) discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems. 2) perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing. 3) identify the set of fonts......