HarfBuzz: text shaping engine and font toolkit with command-line tools

What it supplies: HarfBuzz started as a text shaping engine and has grown into a full font platform. It primarily supports OpenType and also Apple Advanced Typography. The README says it is optimised for robustness, correctness and performance, in that order. Useful for: - Shape text and inspect the glyph output with hb-shape, or render it to an image with hb-view. - Subset and optimise fonts with hb-subset, and read font metadata with hb-info. - Rasterize glyphs to bitmaps or output them as SVG, including colour fonts. - Try shaping, subsetting and rendering in the browser playground. First action: - Download release tarballs or Windows binary bundles from the GitHub releases page. - Read the user manual and API documentation at harfbuzz.github.io. - For builds, follow BUILD.md; for Python use, see README.python.md or the uharfbuzz bindings. Prerequisites and limits: This README gives no version or system requirements in its own text; it points to BUILD.md for build information. It says the hb.h API and the ABI will not break, even across major version jumps. - Font hinting, including autohinting, is not implemented; use FreeType or Skrifa for hinted rasterization. - The claim that HarfBuzz shapes most text on modern screens is the README's own. This README does not state the licence in its text and refers readers to the COPYING file, so read that file before use or redistribution. Fonts you shape carry their own licences. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was built or run and no text was shaped. Based on README text only; BUILD.md, COPYING and the linked documentation were not read. No build or run was made; adoption claims are the README's own. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/316e8022228475d7cf35c2b08f6acd5ebf93da57/README.md ; 10194 bytes ; sha256 3ae84f036c762c83b99b14f6bbe3e5cbdcabe18bfe9c3536cd723f0ebd101041 ; 14 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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