The freetype project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography. they specifically target embedded systems and focus on bringing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.

the freetype 2 library is their new software font engine. it has been designed to provide the following important features:
* a universal and simple api to manage font files
* support for several font formats through loadable modules
* high-quality anti-aliasing
* high portability & performance
supported font formats include:
* truetype files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc)
* type 1 font files both in ascii (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format
* type 1 multiple master fonts. the freetype 2 api also provides
routines to manage design instances easily
* type 1 cid-keyed fonts
* opentype/cff (.otf) fonts
* cff/type 2 fonts
* adobe cef fonts (.cef), used to embed fonts in svg documents with
the adobe svg viewer plugin.
* windows fnt/fon bitmap fonts
this package contains the files needed to run programs that use the freetype 2 library.

home page: http://www.freetype.org/
authors: david turner
robert wilhelm
werner lemberg