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Freetype python provides bindings for the FreeType library. Only the high-level API is bound.

Documentation available at: http://freetype-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

To be able to use freetype python, you need the freetype library version 2 installed on your system.

Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install it using homebrew or compile it and place the library binary file in '/usr/local/lib'.

Freetype should be already installed on your system. If not, either install relevant package from your package manager or compile from sources and place the library binary file in '/usr/local/lib'.

You can try to install a window binaries available from the Freetype site or you can compile it from sources. In such a case, make sure the resulting library binaries is named 'Freetype.dll' (and not something like Freetype245.dll) and make sure to place a copy in Windows/System32 directory.

import freetype
face = freetype.Face("Vera.ttf")
face.set_char_size( 48*64 )
face.load_char('S')
bitmap = face.glyph.bitmap
print bitmap.buffer

Screenshot below comes from the wordle.py example. No clever tricks here, just brute force.

Screenshots below comes from the glyph-vector.py and glyph-vectopr-2.py examples showing how to access a glyph outline information and use it to draw the glyph. Rendering (with Bézier curves) is done using matplotlib.

Screenshot below comes from the glyph-color.py showing how to draw and combine a glyph outline with the regular glyph.

The screenshot below comes from the hello-world.py example showing how to draw text in a bitmap (that has been zoomed in to show antialiasing).

The screenshot below comes from the agg-trick.py example showing an implementation of ideas from the Texts Rasterization Exposures by Maxim Shemarev.

• Titusz Pan (bug report)
• Ekkehard.Blanz (bug report)
• Jānis Lībeks (bug report)
• Frantisek Malina (typo)
• Tillmann Karras (bug report & fix)
• Matthew Sitton (bug report & fix)
• Tao Gong (bug report)
• Matthew Sitton (Remove raw interfaces from the __init__.py file)
• Daniel McCloy (Adde glyph_name function)