libsdl-org/SDL_ttf

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Support for TrueType (.ttf) font files with Simple Directmedia Layer.

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Dominant language: C
License: Zlib
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Bad font scaling when using SDL_LOGICAL_PRESENTATION_LETTERBOX Open

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libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#639 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
simple cmake change Open

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#637 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
TTB and BTT text directions seem reversed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#636 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
Static sdl2-compat vs SDL2_ttf build system... Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#634 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
cannot build SDL_ttf on iOS: cannot build SDL_gl_textengine.c Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#633 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Bad text rendering when the font ascent value of the main font and those of the fallback fonts differ Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#629 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
TTF_GetTextSize gives incorrect height when text position y is not zero Open

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libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#626 · Opened May 11, 2026
TTF_GetGPUTextDrawData "crash" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#619 · Opened Mar 22, 2026
Poor discoverability for the new TTF_TextEngine and TTF_Text functionality Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#616 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2026
[Feature Request] Text scaling and PIXELART scale mode for the renderer text engine Open

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libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#615 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 9, 2026
[Feature request] More glyph data querying functions. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#613 · Opened Feb 24, 2026
TTF_RenderText_Blended creates textures with unpredictable heights? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#607 · Opened Jan 14, 2026
Is there a way free the draw sequence returned by TTF_GetGPUTextDrawData? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#605 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 1, 2026
TTF_RenderGlyph_LCD doesn't work with transparent background Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#602 · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Way to list all codepoints available Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#598 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Jittery text using TTF_DrawRendererText with float coordinates Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#587 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Korean characters are too slim Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#586 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Add TTF_CopyText function Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#585 · Opened Aug 31, 2025
Rendering 🐻‍❄️ incorrectly Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#584 · Opened Aug 30, 2025
Rendering is bad when fallback font is used Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#581 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2025
TTF_GetTextSize defaults to wrapping width for any multiline text Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#576 · Opened Aug 10, 2025
[Improvement] Prevent infinite loop when TTF_RenderText_*_Wrapped() is called with a text that contains '\0' Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#572 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Vulkan validation errors when using TTF_GetGPUTextDrawData Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#570 · Opened Jul 31, 2025
Add Better Support for Cycle Detection for Font Fallback (SDL3) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#567 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2025
Determining number of lines? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#563 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Memory leak in TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended with SDL2_TTF and sdl2-compat Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#562 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2025
TTF_OpenFontIO gives a bad TTF_Font * Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#558 · 1 comment · Opened May 25, 2025
Not possible to center text, TTF_GetTextSize returns wrong size Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#555 · 8 comments · Opened May 16, 2025
not found for architecture arm64 one mac m1 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#554 · Opened May 16, 2025
The existing target is a static library created in source directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#553 · 1 comment · Opened May 10, 2025
TTF_MeasureUTF8 gives wrong character "count" with ligature(s) to be rendered in the string if all of it doesn't fit in "measure_width" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#552 · Opened May 7, 2025
[Emscripten] Building samples produces OpenGL linker errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#541 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
[Feature request]: query font's BBOX Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#536 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 22, 2025
The word wrapping may disagree between outlined and non-outlined text in Surface Engine Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#526 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2025
MSDF Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#524 · 6 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2025
Example with SDL_ttf 3.1.1 does not show a text with SDL3.dll 3.2.4 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#513 · 13 comments · Opened Feb 18, 2025
[Feature request] Setting font features and font variations. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#503 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2025
2.24.0 MacOS+x64 TTF_RenderUTF8_Blended_Wrapped segment fault Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#487 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2025
How to handle mixed left-to-right and right-to-left text? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#472 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2025
Improved word wrapping support using ICU Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#471 · Opened Jan 27, 2025
More support on italic effect Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libsdl-org/SDL_ttf#53 · Opened Feb 11, 2021

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