Fontconfig can:
discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing.
identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of languages.
have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is minimized).
efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts, while minimizing memory usage.
be used in concert with the X Render Extension and FreeType to implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.
Fontconfig does not:
render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms)
depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies
Homepage
Download
Recent Releases
2.1531 Dec 2024 10:35
minor feature:
Akira TAGOH (39): Do not change the order of orth files Convert tabs to spaces Convert more tabs to spaces in docs src/meson.build: Store correct paths to fontconfig.pc. a typo in description for HAVE_STDATOMIC_PRIMITIVES Report more detailed logs instead of assertion. Add some missing constant names for weight. Adujst indentation between programlisting in fontconfig-user.sgml Bump version to 2.14.2 Clean up unused code Add another test case for flatpak Update 65-nonlatin.conf for macOS Change the order of the properties to the order of fontconfig cache format Add missing property descriptions Add namedinstance property Remove the problematic language from code and doc a typo a typo for FcCharSetDelChar doc a typo in scalable property Use 'outline' instead of 'scalable' for bitmaps Add more docs about selectfont Rework CI implementation a typo Rework CI implementation v2 Apply a of ci-templates uninitialized memory access when failing memory allocation. Create a symlink with relative path an error of "initializer element is not constant" Update CaseFolding.txt to Unicode 15.1 Update the encoding table for Simplified Chinese Retry to decode strings in the name table as UTF-16BE in some cases. Work around decoding strings in Macintosh encoding for the name table. Add iconv detection for meson build. .gitlab-ci: Update CI: Update CI: static build only for rawhide Use memmove instead of memcpy Rename README to NEWS and add README.md Update so version. Ben Wagner (1): leak of `reason` in _FcConfigParse when not complaining. Jean Abou Samra (2): Ignore LC_CTYPE if set to "UTF-8" Some doc clarifications. Khaled Hosny (2): Add FC_FONT_WRAPPER Detect standalone CFF fonts for FC_FONT_WRAPPER. Mike FABIAN (3): Add anp.orth, bhb.orth, hif.orth, mag.orth, raj.orth, and the.orth Add agr,ayc,bem,ckb,cmn,dsb,hak,lij,lzh,mfe,mhr,miq,mjw,mnw,nan,nhn,niu,rif,sgs,shn,szl,tcy,tpi,unm,wae,yue,yuw .orth Change index type to 16 bit and bump cache version to 9. Ondrej Balaz (1): Expand