No, I hadn’t heard of it either, but the short story is that Adobe is giving away its IP to make type look more beautiful on your screen.<\/p>\n
FreeType<\/a>, an open-source library for font rendering, is used either partially or exclusively by Android, Chrome OS, iOS, GNU\/Linux and other free Unix operating system derivatives such as FreeBSD and NetBSD. This makes FreeType the font rendering software of choice for more than a billion devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Details & examples are here<\/a>. I’m just excited that Adobe, which since its founding 30 years ago has been redefining what’s possible around beautiful type, is making this contribution. More info from Google is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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