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Xft
Original authorKeith Packard
Stable release

2.3.9[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 20 April 2025; 13 months ago

TypeSoftware library
LicenseMIT/X license
(The Open Group)[2]
Websitefreedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft
Repository

Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.[3][4]

It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.

  1. ^ Thomas E. Dickey (20 April 2025). https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2025-April/061938.html. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  2. ^ "X/MIT Licenses". XFree86 4.0.1. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  3. ^ Keith Packard (2001-11-08). "The Xft Font Library: Architecture and Users Guide". Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Linux Showcase & Conference. 5. USENIX Association: 22.
  4. ^ Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458.