Xft

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Xft is a Free library written by Keith Packard. "Xft" stands for "X FreeType interface library. As of version 2.1, it is licensed under a quasi-BSD license.

It is designed to allow the FreeType rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's antialiased fonts with X Windows. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.

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A tutorial by the author