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Pango

Pango is an open-source library for laying out and rendering internationalised text, forming the core of text and font handling in GTK and hosted by the GNOME project. It is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. The Pango API reference lists its licence as LGPL-2.1-or-later, with Owen Taylor and Behdad Esfahbod as authors.[1]

  2. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK and can be used anywhere text layout is needed.[2]

  3. Pango source code is published on GNOME's GitLab and release archives are available from download.gnome.org.[3]

  4. Pango uses HarfBuzz for complex-text shaping on all platforms and supports FreeType/fontconfig, native Windows and macOS font backends.[4]

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References

  1. Pango – 1.0 · docs.gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. The GTK Project - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit · gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. The GTK Project - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit · gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. The GTK Project - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit · gtk.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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