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freetype-py

Python binding for the freetype library
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

freetype-py has 4.8M monthly downloads and 336 GitHub stars. Version 2.5.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2011.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2024.

It is used by 86 tracked packages, including rlpycairo, vispy and esphome.

GitHub topics include freetype and bindings.

Downloads
Day
126.9K
Week
814.8K
Month
4.8M
Stars
336
Forks
94
Issues
40
Version
2.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
55
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
672 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,782,000
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,782,000
Stars
336
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
116,394
Month daily avg
159,400
Momentum
-27.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
676 days ago
Total releases
34
Releases/year
2.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
• Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
28
Monthly downloads
4,782,000
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
70
 
Issue Burden
119.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 90.3K
Windows 3.6K
macOS 1.5K

Python Versions

3.13
55.0% 51.4K
3.12
27.0% 25.2K
3.11
6.9% 6.5K
3.14
6.0% 5.6K
3.10
5.1% 4.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
68.3K
2. SG SG
3.7K
3. CA CA
2.7K
4. PL PL
2.2K
5. SE SE
1.9K
6. AU AU
1.9K
7. IE IE
1.7K
8. NO NO
1.6K
9. BE BE
1.6K
10. DE DE
1.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
January 30, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.5.1
Total Releases
34
Contributors
28
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Nicolas P. Rougier
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
freetype font
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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