fontconfig
brew install fontconfig
v2.18.1
HPND-sell-variant AND Unicode-3.0 AND MIT-Modern-Variant AND MIT AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
C library for configuring and matching fonts on Unix/Linux systems.
Why you might care
Fontconfig is a core dependency for font handling in X11 and other Unix graphics systems. It provides a single standard API for applications to discover, configure, and select fonts, abstracting away font path management and substitution rules. Most Linux desktop environments and rendering engines (Pango, Cairo) depend on it.
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Runtime dependencies
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Links
- https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/fontconfig/
- Brew formula source: Formula/f/fontconfig.rb
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