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Any known C# library or project out there that can understand the TTF file format? Most questions Ive seen regarding this are attempting to do custom rendering, but I'm more interested in a font editor type of application.

Brady Moritz
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I want to introduce another pure C# lib for processing font. Here https://github.com/LayoutFarm/Typography

Pure C#

support .NET >=20

access general glyph data,

and access advanced typography data.

(such as GDEF,GSUB,GPOS) etc.

The below image shows some screen snapshot,

compare then lib's rendering glyph 'B'

  1. (left) : glyph from the lib without Hinting

  2. (middle) : Windows's GDI with clear type (from notepad)

  3. (right): glyph from the lib with True Hinting

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snap 2: I'm developing auto-hint, and grid fitting.

test it out, and feel free to comment, fork, discuss.

triangulate1

snap 3: subpixel rendering

subpixel_rendering

WinterDev
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  • Pure C#. hooray!! C# world need a raw C# font/text library. I won't find the amazing project if you hadn't post here. Thank you! – zwcloud Feb 04 '17 at 17:48
  • Off the top of my head, could this be used to convert ttf fonts to woff? – user1932634 Dec 05 '17 at 15:14
  • This looks interesting. Doesn't seem to be any documentation for this though. Going to see if I can make sense of the demo examples. – solstice333 Feb 06 '19 at 23:13
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Don't know what you want to do exactly, but WPF has a cool GlyphTypeface Class that is quite abstract and quite independent.

This is how you can start with:

GlyphTypeface ttf = new GlyphTypeface(new Uri(@"c:\windows\fonts\verdana.ttf"));

There are also the GlyphRun Class and the GlyphRunDrawing Class.

Otherwise, if you're looking for the big picture, open-source, you can also check the FreeType Project, available here: http://freetype.org/

Simon Mourier
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There is a .net wrapper for FreeType available here: https://github.com/Robmaister/SharpFont

It's also available on nuget:

PM> Install-Package SharpFont
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