Xft

For the U.S. Navy fighter aircraft, see Northrop XFT.

For the bubble tea chain, see Xing Fu Tang.

Xft, the X FreeType interface library, is a free computer program library written by Keith Packard.^{[3] [4]} It uses the MIT/X license that The Open Group applied after the post X11R6.4 license restoration.^[2]

Xft

Original author(s)	Keith Packard
Stable release	2.3.9[1]  / 20 April 2025; 34 days ago (20 April 2025)
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft
Type	Software library
License	MIT/X license (The Open Group)[2]
Website	freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Xft

It is designed to allow the FreeType font rasterizer to be used with the X Rendering Extension; it is generally employed to use FreeType's anti-aliased fonts with the X Window System. Xft also depends on fontconfig for access to the system fonts.