Cairo (graphics)

Original author(s)	Keith Packard, Carl Worth[1]
Developer(s)	Carl Worth, Behdad Esfahbod
Initial release	Before 2003; 21 years ago (2003)[2]
Stable release	1.18.0 (September 23, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-09-23)[3]) [±]}
Repository	gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo
Written in	C
Type	Graphics library
License	GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (only) or Mozilla Public License 1.1
Website	www.cairographics.org

Cairo (stylized as cairo) is an open-source graphics library that provides a vector graphics-based, device-independent API for software developers. It provides primitives for two-dimensional drawing across a number of different backends. Cairo uses hardware acceleration^[4] when available.