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 * Easily hackable (UI layer written in python, inner loops in C for
 speed). Less than ten thousand lines of code.
 
-* Uses OpenGL+FreeType for rendering, does not depend on any GUI
-toolkits, offloads rendering work to the GPU for lower system load.
+* Uses OpenGL for rendering, offloads rendering work to the GPU for lower system load.
 
 * Cross-platform support: kitty currently works on Linux and macOS, but because it
-uses only OpenGL+FreeType for rendering, it should be trivial to port to
+uses only OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to
 other platforms. See link:../../issues/5[5] for the status of the macOS port.
 
 image::screenshot.png?raw=true[Screenshot, showing three programs in the "Tall" layout]