| Original author(s) | Keith Packard |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.3.8[1] 
/ 17 April 2023 |
| Repository | |
| Type | Software library |
| License | MIT/X license (The Open Group)[2] |
| Website | freedesktop |
Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.[3] [4] It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.[2]
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.
- ^ "libXft 2.3.8".
- ^ a b "X/MIT Licenses". XFree86 4.0.1. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Roderick W. Smith. Linux in a Windows World. O'Reilly. p. 458.