nothings/stb

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A collection of single-file, public domain (or MIT) C/C++ libraries covering image loading/writing/resizing, TrueType font rasterization, Ogg Vorbis decoding, typesafe containers, noise generation, and other utilities. Each library ships as one header/source file with no dependencies, designed for easy drop-in use.

Use cases

• load png and jpg images in c without dependencies
• decode ogg vorbis audio files
• rasterize truetype fonts in a game engine
• resize images with good quality in c
• add dynamic arrays and hash tables to c code
• embed a tilemap editor in a game
• write png images from c++

When to choose

• you need dependency-free, single-file C/C++ libraries
• you want public domain licensing with no attribution requirements
• you're building a game or graphics app needing image/font/audio loading
• you want simple, battle-tested utilities like dynamic arrays in C

When to avoid

• your project has strict security review requirements, since fixes are discussed publicly and merged slowly
• you need feature-rich, actively maintained multimedia frameworks like FFmpeg or FreeType
• you need GPU-accelerated or highly optimized image processing at scale

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing audio-processing graphics parser file-system compression graphics image-processing developer-tools cross-platform cpp c cross-platform game-engine single-file-libraries public-domain header-only image-loading truetype-fonts ogg-vorbis gamedev no-dependencies game-development audio

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