freetypePen

Pen to rasterize paths with FreeType.

class fontTools.pens.freetypePen.FreeTypePen(glyphSet)[source]

Bases: BasePen

Pen to rasterize paths with FreeType. Requires freetype-py module.

Constructs FT_Outline from the paths, and renders it within a bitmap buffer.

For array() and show(), numpy and matplotlib must be installed. For image(), Pillow is required. Each module is lazily loaded when the corresponding method is called.

Parameters:

glyphSet – a dictionary of drawable glyph objects keyed by name used to resolve component references in composite glyphs.

Examples

If numpy and matplotlib is available, the following code will show the glyph image of fi in a new window:

from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont
from fontTools.pens.freetypePen import FreeTypePen
from fontTools.misc.transform import Offset
pen = FreeTypePen(None)
font = TTFont('SourceSansPro-Regular.otf')
glyph = font.getGlyphSet()['fi']
glyph.draw(pen)
width, ascender, descender = glyph.width, font['OS/2'].usWinAscent, -font['OS/2'].usWinDescent
height = ascender - descender
pen.show(width=width, height=height, transform=Offset(0, -descender))

Combining with uharfbuzz, you can typeset a chunk of glyphs in a pen:

import uharfbuzz as hb
from fontTools.pens.freetypePen import FreeTypePen
from fontTools.pens.transformPen import TransformPen
from fontTools.misc.transform import Offset

en1, en2, ar, ja = 'Typesetting', 'Jeff', 'صف الحروف', 'たいぷせっと'
for text, font_path, direction, typo_ascender, typo_descender, vhea_ascender, vhea_descender, contain, features in (
    (en1, 'NotoSans-Regular.ttf',       'ltr', 2189, -600, None, None, False, {"kern": True, "liga": True}),
    (en2, 'NotoSans-Regular.ttf',       'ltr', 2189, -600, None, None, True,  {"kern": True, "liga": True}),
    (ar,  'NotoSansArabic-Regular.ttf', 'rtl', 1374, -738, None, None, False, {"kern": True, "liga": True}),
    (ja,  'NotoSansJP-Regular.otf',     'ltr', 880,  -120, 500,  -500, False, {"palt": True, "kern": True}),
    (ja,  'NotoSansJP-Regular.otf',     'ttb', 880,  -120, 500,  -500, False, {"vert": True, "vpal": True, "vkrn": True})
):
    blob = hb.Blob.from_file_path(font_path)
    face = hb.Face(blob)
    font = hb.Font(face)
    buf = hb.Buffer()
    buf.direction = direction
    buf.add_str(text)
    buf.guess_segment_properties()
    hb.shape(font, buf, features)

    x, y = 0, 0
    pen = FreeTypePen(None)
    for info, pos in zip(buf.glyph_infos, buf.glyph_positions):
        gid = info.codepoint
        transformed = TransformPen(pen, Offset(x + pos.x_offset, y + pos.y_offset))
        font.draw_glyph_with_pen(gid, transformed)
        x += pos.x_advance
        y += pos.y_advance

    offset, width, height = None, None, None
    if direction in ('ltr', 'rtl'):
        offset = (0, -typo_descender)
        width  = x
        height = typo_ascender - typo_descender
    else:
        offset = (-vhea_descender, -y)
        width  = vhea_ascender - vhea_descender
        height = -y
    pen.show(width=width, height=height, transform=Offset(*offset), contain=contain)

For Jupyter Notebook, the rendered image will be displayed in a cell if you replace show() with image() in the examples.

outline(transform=None, evenOdd=False)[source]

Converts the current contours to FT_Outline.

Parameters:

  • transform – An optional 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module.

  • evenOdd – Pass True for even-odd fill instead of non-zero.

buffer(width=None, height=None, transform=None, contain=False, evenOdd=False)[source]

Renders the current contours within a bitmap buffer.

Parameters:

  • width – Image width of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • height – Image height of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • transform – An optional 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module. The bitmap size is not affected by this matrix.

  • contain – If True, the image size will be automatically expanded so that it fits to the bounding box of the paths. Useful for rendering glyphs with negative sidebearings without clipping.

  • evenOdd – Pass True for even-odd fill instead of non-zero.

Returns:

A tuple of (buffer, size), where buffer is a bytes object of the resulted bitmap and size is a 2-tuple of its dimension.

Notes

The image size should always be given explicitly if you need to get a proper glyph image. When width and height are omitted, it forcifully fits to the bounding box and the side bearings get cropped. If you pass 0 to both width and height and set contain to True, it expands to the bounding box while maintaining the origin of the contours, meaning that LSB will be maintained but RSB won’t. The difference between the two becomes more obvious when rotate or skew transformation is applied.

Example

>>>
>> pen = FreeTypePen(None)
>> glyph.draw(pen)
>> buf, size = pen.buffer(width=500, height=1000)
>> type(buf), len(buf), size
(<class 'bytes'>, 500000, (500, 1000))
array(width=None, height=None, transform=None, contain=False, evenOdd=False)[source]

Returns the rendered contours as a numpy array. Requires numpy.

Parameters:

  • width – Image width of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • height – Image height of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • transform – An optional 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module. The bitmap size is not affected by this matrix.

  • contain – If True, the image size will be automatically expanded so that it fits to the bounding box of the paths. Useful for rendering glyphs with negative sidebearings without clipping.

  • evenOdd – Pass True for even-odd fill instead of non-zero.

Returns:

A numpy.ndarray object with a shape of (height, width). Each element takes a value in the range of [0.0, 1.0].

Notes

The image size should always be given explicitly if you need to get a proper glyph image. When width and height are omitted, it forcifully fits to the bounding box and the side bearings get cropped. If you pass 0 to both width and height and set contain to True, it expands to the bounding box while maintaining the origin of the contours, meaning that LSB will be maintained but RSB won’t. The difference between the two becomes more obvious when rotate or skew transformation is applied.

Example

>>>
>> pen = FreeTypePen(None)
>> glyph.draw(pen)
>> arr = pen.array(width=500, height=1000)
>> type(a), a.shape
(<class 'numpy.ndarray'>, (1000, 500))
show(width=None, height=None, transform=None, contain=False, evenOdd=False)[source]

Plots the rendered contours with pyplot. Requires numpy and matplotlib.

Parameters:

  • width – Image width of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • height – Image height of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • transform – An optional 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module. The bitmap size is not affected by this matrix.

  • contain – If True, the image size will be automatically expanded so that it fits to the bounding box of the paths. Useful for rendering glyphs with negative sidebearings without clipping.

  • evenOdd – Pass True for even-odd fill instead of non-zero.

Notes

The image size should always be given explicitly if you need to get a proper glyph image. When width and height are omitted, it forcifully fits to the bounding box and the side bearings get cropped. If you pass 0 to both width and height and set contain to True, it expands to the bounding box while maintaining the origin of the contours, meaning that LSB will be maintained but RSB won’t. The difference between the two becomes more obvious when rotate or skew transformation is applied.

Example

>>>
>> pen = FreeTypePen(None)
>> glyph.draw(pen)
>> pen.show(width=500, height=1000)
image(width=None, height=None, transform=None, contain=False, evenOdd=False)[source]

Returns the rendered contours as a PIL image. Requires Pillow. Can be used to display a glyph image in Jupyter Notebook.

Parameters:

  • width – Image width of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • height – Image height of the bitmap in pixels. If omitted, it automatically fits to the bounding box of the contours.

  • transform – An optional 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module. The bitmap size is not affected by this matrix.

  • contain – If True, the image size will be automatically expanded so that it fits to the bounding box of the paths. Useful for rendering glyphs with negative sidebearings without clipping.

  • evenOdd – Pass True for even-odd fill instead of non-zero.

Returns:

A PIL.image object. The image is filled in black with alpha channel obtained from the rendered bitmap.

Notes

The image size should always be given explicitly if you need to get a proper glyph image. When width and height are omitted, it forcifully fits to the bounding box and the side bearings get cropped. If you pass 0 to both width and height and set contain to True, it expands to the bounding box while maintaining the origin of the contours, meaning that LSB will be maintained but RSB won’t. The difference between the two becomes more obvious when rotate or skew transformation is applied.

Example

>>>
>> pen = FreeTypePen(None)
>> glyph.draw(pen)
>> img = pen.image(width=500, height=1000)
>> type(img), img.size
(<class 'PIL.Image.Image'>, (500, 1000))
property bbox

Computes the exact bounding box of an outline.

Returns:

A tuple of (xMin, yMin, xMax, yMax).

property cbox

Returns an outline’s ‘control box’.

Returns:

A tuple of (xMin, yMin, xMax, yMax).