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September 23, 2026 at 6:00 AM
I'm live!!!! implementing freetype in my engine, come have a look!!! :3c
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never let freetype do directwrite's job
February 17, 2026 at 1:15 PM
never let freetype do directwrite's job
Google is replacing Freetype in Chrome with Rust code 😌 very, very carefully
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
developer.chrome.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Google is replacing Freetype in Chrome with Rust code 😌 very, very carefully
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40% - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Faster-ClearType-Like
FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%
The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...
www.phoronix.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:32 PM
FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40% - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Faster-ClearType-Like
replaced freetype with stable diffusion
April 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
replaced freetype with stable diffusion
Still working on this. For smooth continuous zooming it's better to disable font hinting (FreeType hinting snaps glyphs to pixels, for obvious reasons) so I'm looking into ways to provide hints when changing size.
(I'll rework the text layout functions separately from the font system)
(I'll rework the text layout functions separately from the font system)
January 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Still working on this. For smooth continuous zooming it's better to disable font hinting (FreeType hinting snaps glyphs to pixels, for obvious reasons) so I'm looking into ways to provide hints when changing size.
(I'll rework the text layout functions separately from the font system)
(I'll rework the text layout functions separately from the font system)
Remember when Meta published about an ITW FreeType OOB write vuln (CVE-2025-27363) in March? Turns out, Meta links this vuln to an exploit from spyware vendor Paragon www.securityweek.com/freetype-zer...
FreeType Zero-Day Found by Meta Exploited in Paragon Spyware Attacks
WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that it linked the exploited FreeType vulnerability CVE-2025-27363 to a Paragon exploit.
www.securityweek.com
June 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Remember when Meta published about an ITW FreeType OOB write vuln (CVE-2025-27363) in March? Turns out, Meta links this vuln to an exploit from spyware vendor Paragon www.securityweek.com/freetype-zer...
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Slow-Loading-Arial-TTF
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font
The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase...
www.phoronix.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Slow-Loading-Arial-TTF
We will have memory safety… it will take many steps forward, over the long haul. Here’s an update from Chrome on replacing FreeType with a Rust based alternative. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
developer.chrome.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 AM
We will have memory safety… it will take many steps forward, over the long haul. Here’s an update from Chrome on replacing FreeType with a Rust based alternative. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
- Added a FetchContent_Declare & _MakeAvailable to download Freetype
- Specified "OVERRIDE_FIND_PACKAGE"
- Verified that find_package("Freetype" REQUIRED) works
- Include RmlUi
- Fails to find Freetype
I fucking hate CMake dude this shit is so ass
- Specified "OVERRIDE_FIND_PACKAGE"
- Verified that find_package("Freetype" REQUIRED) works
- Include RmlUi
- Fails to find Freetype
I fucking hate CMake dude this shit is so ass
March 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM
- Added a FetchContent_Declare & _MakeAvailable to download Freetype
- Specified "OVERRIDE_FIND_PACKAGE"
- Verified that find_package("Freetype" REQUIRED) works
- Include RmlUi
- Fails to find Freetype
I fucking hate CMake dude this shit is so ass
- Specified "OVERRIDE_FIND_PACKAGE"
- Verified that find_package("Freetype" REQUIRED) works
- Include RmlUi
- Fails to find Freetype
I fucking hate CMake dude this shit is so ass
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Slow-Loading-Arial-TTF
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font
The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase...
www.phoronix.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeType-Slow-Loading-Arial-TTF
Threat actors have exploited a zero-day (CVE-2025-27363) in the FreeType font-rendering library
www.facebook.com/security/adv...
www.facebook.com/security/adv...
March 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Threat actors have exploited a zero-day (CVE-2025-27363) in the FreeType font-rendering library
www.facebook.com/security/adv...
www.facebook.com/security/adv...
New blog post up on the Rust font loader now shipping in Chrome. I only had a small part in this personally but am proud of the team's work. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
developer.chrome.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New blog post up on the Rust font loader now shipping in Chrome. I only had a small part in this personally but am proud of the team's work. developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
iOS only has one pre-installed system font for Chinese (simplified and traditional) and apparently they made up their own character table format that Godot can't load because it uses FreeType which doesn't recognize the weird character table format.
The fix: add 9 MB of font files to the game :(
The fix: add 9 MB of font files to the game :(
October 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
iOS only has one pre-installed system font for Chinese (simplified and traditional) and apparently they made up their own character table format that Godot can't load because it uses FreeType which doesn't recognize the weird character table format.
The fix: add 9 MB of font files to the game :(
The fix: add 9 MB of font files to the game :(
the kerning is bad in firefox but not in chrome, but i think they both use harfbuzz and freetype so i have no idea what the difference might be
October 11, 2024 at 8:27 PM
the kerning is bad in firefox but not in chrome, but i think they both use harfbuzz and freetype so i have no idea what the difference might be
Facebook is warning that a FreeType vulnerability in all versions up to 2.13 can lead to arbitrary code execution, with reports that the flaw has been exploited in attacks.
Facebook discloses FreeType 2 flaw exploited in attacks
Facebook is warning that a FreeType vulnerability in all versions up to 2.13 can lead to arbitrary code execution, with reports that the flaw has been exploited in attacks.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Facebook is warning that a FreeType vulnerability in all versions up to 2.13 can lead to arbitrary code execution, with reports that the flaw has been exploited in attacks.
famously it took like 6 months for me to get freetype approved for TOOL usage when I was working on COD, when Treyach was already using it in BLOPS 2 without legal approval. This is of course an extreme case, and back when AAA was very wary of anything opensource
May 31, 2026 at 2:49 AM
famously it took like 6 months for me to get freetype approved for TOOL usage when I was working on COD, when Treyach was already using it in BLOPS 2 without legal approval. This is of course an extreme case, and back when AAA was very wary of anything opensource
Ooph, fixed the issue with fonts. I thought the problem was with the fonts logic / my freetype usage / unicode conversions / etc, but turned out to be referencing freed memory due to memory being copied instead of moved due to missing noexcept specifier. Classic C++ 😎
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April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Ooph, fixed the issue with fonts. I thought the problem was with the fonts logic / my freetype usage / unicode conversions / etc, but turned out to be referencing freed memory due to memory being copied instead of moved due to missing noexcept specifier. Classic C++ 😎
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Drag[en]gine 1.29 Released: dragondreams.ch/index.php/dr... with support for FreeType (scalabe fonts), gamepad directional navigation, improved VR passthrough and more.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Drag[en]gine 1.29 Released: dragondreams.ch/index.php/dr... with support for FreeType (scalabe fonts), gamepad directional navigation, improved VR passthrough and more.
#indiedev #indiegames #SwissGames
#indiedev #indiegames #SwissGames
Chromium team developed a new font rendering library (Skrifa) as part of their Fontations library written in Rust. Skrifa now provides memory safe rendering for all web fonts since Chromium 133 for Android, ChromeOS and other Linux distributions:
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Memory safety for web fonts | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn how and why the Chrome team has replaced FreeType with Skrifa.
developer.chrome.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Chromium team developed a new font rendering library (Skrifa) as part of their Fontations library written in Rust. Skrifa now provides memory safe rendering for all web fonts since Chromium 133 for Android, ChromeOS and other Linux distributions:
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-...
Servo Report for Week 34 2025
- Add font variations support for Windows and macOS
- Add support for format(*-variations) to @font-face
- Implement CSS font-variation-settings property for FreeType platforms
- layout: Stop making <video> fall back to a preferred aspect ratio of 2
1/2
- Add font variations support for Windows and macOS
- Add support for format(*-variations) to @font-face
- Implement CSS font-variation-settings property for FreeType platforms
- layout: Stop making <video> fall back to a preferred aspect ratio of 2
1/2
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Servo Report for Week 34 2025
- Add font variations support for Windows and macOS
- Add support for format(*-variations) to @font-face
- Implement CSS font-variation-settings property for FreeType platforms
- layout: Stop making <video> fall back to a preferred aspect ratio of 2
1/2
- Add font variations support for Windows and macOS
- Add support for format(*-variations) to @font-face
- Implement CSS font-variation-settings property for FreeType platforms
- layout: Stop making <video> fall back to a preferred aspect ratio of 2
1/2
and people used to give Linux/Freetype font rendering shit
December 3, 2024 at 1:29 AM
and people used to give Linux/Freetype font rendering shit
freetype stem darkening being disabled by default is actually criminal
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
freetype stem darkening being disabled by default is actually criminal
using macOS on a non-HiDPI (1x) monitor once again and it's really quite a shame just how poor the overall text legibility is (IMO), compared to Windows or Linux (FreeType)
September 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
using macOS on a non-HiDPI (1x) monitor once again and it's really quite a shame just how poor the overall text legibility is (IMO), compared to Windows or Linux (FreeType)