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<!--See past and upcoming [HarfBuzz Hackfests](https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/Hackfests/)!-->
## Name
HarfBuzz (حرف‌باز) is my Persian translation of “[OpenType][1]”,
transliterated using the Latin script. It sports a second meaning, but that
ain’t translatable.
> Background: Originally there was this font format called TrueType. People and
> companies started calling their type engines all things ending in Type:
> FreeType, CoolType, ClearType, etc. And then came OpenType, which is the
> successor of TrueType. So, for my OpenType implementation, I decided to stick
> with the concept but use the Persian translation. Which is fitting given that
> Persian is written in the Arabic script, and OpenType is an extension of
> TrueType that adds support for complex script rendering, and HarfBuzz is an
> implementation of OpenType complex text shaping.
<details>
<summary>Packaging status of HarfBuzz</summary>