2024
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FreeType
FreeType is a software library to render fonts.
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2023
3 projects
Integrating ftbench into FreeType's Build Structure: A Performance Benchmarking Automation Project
The goal of this project is to improve the ftbench program in FreeType's build structure for easier performance testing. The current manual process...
Integrate FreeType with alternative rendering engines
Investigate and implement alternative font renderers in FreeType, including: • font-rs: A font renderer developed by Raph Levien. A blogpost...
Adding a “capabilities database” to the FreeType auto-hinter
It is easy to render fonts well on screens with high pixel density. However, straightforward algorithms run into problems when rendering with few...
2022
2 projects
Integrate FreeType with alternative font rendering engines
Investigate and implement alternative font renderers in FreeType, including: • font-rs • font-go • fontdue • Pathfinder Thus the project is about...
Improve FreeType demo program ftinspect
In this project, the Qt-based ftinspect program in the FreeType Demo Programs project is improved from a skeleton with extremely limited...
2021
1 project
Re: Develop a test framework for checking FreeType's rendering output
This Framework aims to compare the development version to the baseline version . Upon each commit, several builds are triggered for various operating...
2020
3 projects
Add / Improve Freetype Testing Framework
I plan to address the idea "Develop a test framework for checking FreeType's rendering output". Frreetype needs to be able to compare images for...
Replace FreeType's tracing and debugging facilities with an external logging library
FreeType is an open-source library used to render fonts. FreeType is packed with a lot of complex font-related features, therefore, logging is an...
Integrating Distance Field Generation in FreeType
Distance fields looks similar to rasterized images but are very different from them. In the context of fonts, each pixel in a distance field image...
2019
3 projects
Improve the 'ftinspect' demo program
‘ftinspect’ is an essential part of FreeType to show how a font gets rendered by FreeType, allowing control over virtually all rendering parameters....
Adding support for OpenType-SVG Fonts to FreeType
To support colored glyphs in OpenType fonts, several formats currently exist, namely SBIX, CBDT and COLR. These are used widely with varying degree...
Add Support for WOFF2 Fonts to FreeType
The aim of this project is to integrate seamless support for the WOFF File Format 2.0 into FreeType so that these fonts can be recognized,...
2018
3 projects
Improve Fuzzing for FreeType
Fuzzing is a very important asset when verifying programs, as it reveals critical edge cases that can be missed easily by structured testing....
Redevelop FreeType's documentation using markdown
The goal of this project is to redesign and fully automate the documentation methods for FreeType, and make it easier to update and manage the...
Integrating VFlib's TeX format drivers into FreeType
The goal of this project is to add the support of TeX's bitmap font formats (GF, TFM, PK and VF fonts) into FreeType by providing new modules to...
2017
2 projects
GSoC 2017 Proposal - Kushal
For a widely used library like FreeType, a test framework to check font rasterization is a must have. Having a test framework to test the output of...
Adding support for Type 1 fonts to Adobe CFF Engine
Thanks to Adobe's contribution of their CFF engine, FreeType has excellent rasterization of CFF fonts. However, Type 1 fonts, a similar PostScript...