FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient,
highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output
(glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font
conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.

Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform
higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored
text rendering, 'hollowing' etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by
providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of
font files.

FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType
License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they
proprietary or not.