Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. It can be used anywhere text layout is needed, although much of its development has been in the context of the GTK widget toolkit.
Pango is designed to be modular. The core layout engine can be used with different font backends, and its integration with Cairo provides a complete solution for high quality text handling and graphics rendering.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Lays out and renders internationalized text.
- Core text and font handling library for GTK.
- Supports complex text shaping through HarfBuzz.
- Works with different font backends.
- Integrates with Cairo for high quality text rendering.
- Includes PangoLayout for laying out blocks of text.
- Provides routines to assist editing internationalized text.
- Supports client-side fonts using FreeType and fontconfig.
- Offers native font support on Windows and macOS.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango
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Developer: GNOME
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Pango is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Font Renderers | |
|---|---|
| HarfBuzz | OpenType text shaping engine |
| FreeType | Small and efficient software font engine |
| Pango | International text layout and rendering with rich script support |
| LibICU | Libraries for Unicode and internationalization |
| Fontconfig | Library for configuring and customizing font access |
| COSMIC Text | Rust library for rich multi-line text layout, shaping and editing |
| FriBidi | Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm |
| Swash | Pure Rust toolkit for glyph shaping, scaling and rendering |
| SheenBidi | Compact Unicode bidirectional algorithm implementation for text engines |
| Raqm | Bidirectional layout and shaping for complex writing systems |
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