module to read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2

 Font::FreeType allows Perl programs to conveniently read information from
 font files. All the font access is done through the FreeType2 library,
 which supports many formats. It can render images of characters with
 high-quality hinting and antialiasing, extract metrics information, and
 extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType.