D-Type Font Engine is a portable C/C++ font engine library for applications that require fast, smooth (anti-aliased), scalable and high-quality text output. D-Type Font Engine fully supports D-Type, TrueType, OpenType, Type 1 and bare CFF fonts and features a robust, reliable, extensive and font format independent API. This library is particularly suitable for all types of applications that require rich font support and crisp and smooth scalable text. In addition, D-Type Font Engine is well suited for both device dependent and device independent text layout and does not require expensive manually hinted fonts with device specific metrics and/or instructions in order to produce beautiful text output. In fact, D-Type's unique and fully automated built-in font hinting mechanism (auto-hinting) can make your fonts look better than other font rendering technologies. D-Type Font Engine is suitable for all types of output devices including CRT monitors, LCD and TV screens.
D-Type Font Engine is powered by D-Type Rasterizer, an ultra-fast grayscale rasterizer capable of generating beautiful anti-aliased type on screen or any other grayscale capable device. Together, these two libraries represent the foundation of D-Type's platform independent rendering system. Since their first public release in early 1996, both libraries have continued to develop and improve. Today, the latest 4.0 release brings a refreshed and modernized API, lots of new features and even more internal optimizations and improvements.
In addition, D-Type Font Engine is one of the very few font engines with direct support for Multiple-Master technology, a revolutionary breakthrough in font technologies that allows two or more outline fonts, or base designs, to be incorporated into a single font file. This feature allows applications to create hundreds or thousands of additional font instances (or intermediate designs) from the base designs by applying D-Type's unique real-time interpolation capabilities (also known as font morphing).
Multiple-Master font support, in combination with D-Type's excellent hinting and anti-aliasing features, result in absolutely superior quality and make D-Type one of the best font engines available on the market today.
