SixLabors.Fonts

SixLabors.Fonts is a new cross-platform font loadings and drawing library.

Packages

Name	Release (NuGet)	Build Status	License	Chat
SixLabors.Fonts

Manual build

If you prefer, you can compile SixLabors.Shapes yourself (please do and help!), you'll need:

• Visual Studio 2017
• The .NET Core 1.0 SDK Installer - Non VSCode link.

To clone it locally click the "Clone in Windows" button above or run the following git commands.

git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/Fonts.git

Features

• Reading font description (name, family, subname etc plus other string metadata)
• Loading True type fonts
• Loading WOFF fonts
• Load all compatable fornts from local machine store (windows only at the moment)

Limitations

Only support for otf and woff fonts with True Type outlines.

API Examples

Read font description

FontDescription description = null;
using(var fs = File.OpenReader("Font.ttf")){
    description = FontDescription.Load(fs); // once it has loaded the data the stream is no longer required and can be disposed off
}

string name = description.FontName;

Popluating a font collection

FontCollection fonts = new FontCollection();
FontFamily font1 = fonts.Install("./path/to/font1.ttf");
FontFamily font2 = fonts.Install("./path/to/font2.woff");

How can you help?

Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests.

Projects using SixLabors.Fonts

• ImageSharp - cross platform, fully manged, image manipultion and drawing library.