--- title: Six Labors : Announcing Fonts 1.0.0 | daily.dev description: SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 has been released as a final, stable version after six years of development. It's a cross-platform .NET library for font loading and text... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-fonts-1-0-0-zlxm1mmlr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Six Labors : Announcing Fonts 1.0.0 | daily.dev og:description: SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 has been released as a final, stable version after six years of development. It's a cross-platform .NET library for font loading and text... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-fonts-1-0-0-zlxm1mmlr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZlxM1MmlR.png og:image:alt: Six Labors : Announcing Fonts 1.0.0 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Six Labors : Announcing Fonts 1.0.0 **[Six Labors : ImageSharp](https://daily.dev/sources/sixlabors)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 has been released as a final, stable version after six years of development. It's a cross-platform .NET library for font loading and text layout, supporting TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF fonts across Windows, Linux, and macOS. Features include kerning, ligatures, complex shaping, bidirectional text, vertical text layout, and rich text formatting. It serves as the font engine for SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing and is licensed under Apache 2.0, fulfilling a commitment made in 2022 that v1.x releases would be open source and free to use. Upcoming releases of dependent libraries, including ImageSharp.Drawing 1.0.0, are planned for the following weeks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What font formats does SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 support in .NET? SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 supports TrueType, OpenType, and WOFF fonts across Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is a cross-platform font loading and text layout library that also handles kerning, ligatures, complex shaping, bidirectional text, and vertical text layout, and serves as the font engine behind SixLabors.ImageSharp.Drawing. _Developers picking a .NET font library can track releases like this one on daily.dev._ ### Is SixLabors.Fonts free and open source to use commercially? Yes, all v1.x releases of SixLabors.Fonts are open source and free to use, licensed under Apache 2.0. This fulfills a commitment made in July 2022 that the v1.x line would remain free, resolving earlier licensing uncertainty around the SixLabors libraries. _Teams weighing licensing risk for imaging libraries can follow updates like this via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Six Labors : Fitting Type to the Pixel Grid](https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-fitting-type-to-the-pixel-grid-kezhq9pfj) · Six Labors : ImageSharp · 5 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google Just Made Its Sleek New Font Open Source](https://daily.dev/posts/google-just-made-its-sleek-new-font-open-source-rjo5avhro) · It's Foss · 183 upvotes · 2 comments - [Google Releases its New Google Sans Flex Font as Open Source](https://daily.dev/posts/google-releases-its-new-google-sans-flex-font-as-open-source-8x1eqonxu) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release](https://daily.dev/posts/skiasharp-4-0-is-here-announcing-the-first-stable-release-i6cab6h9v) · .NET Blog · 30 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#.net](https://daily.dev/tags/.net), [#typography](https://daily.dev/tags/typography) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-fonts-1-0-0-zlxm1mmlr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Six Labors : Announcing Fonts 1.0.0","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-fonts-1-0-0-zlxm1mmlr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-labors-announcing-fonts-1-0-0-zlxm1mmlr"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:21:55.366Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:48:24.073Z","description":"SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0 has been released as a final, stable version after six years of development. 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