pango
brew install pango
v1.57.1
LGPL-2.0-or-later
Shared library for laying out and rendering internationalized text with font support and Bidi handling.
Why you might care
Pango is a foundational text-layout engine used by GTK and other GUI toolkits; if you're building or linking against GTK-based applications, you likely need this. It handles complex scripts (Thai, Arabic, etc.), font selection via fontconfig, and text shaping via HarfBuzz. Primarily a build/runtime dependency rather than a standalone CLI tool.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://www.gtk.org/docs/architecture/pango
- Brew formula source: Formula/p/pango.rb
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