fcft_clone(3)

💅 fcft_clone(3) — the fcft manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the page for fcft_clone, which lives in the fcft manual, and honestly? it's a little bop. short, sweet, does exactly one thing and does it iconically ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fcft_clone — copy an already instantiated font. that's it. that's the whole job. copying a font you already made. easy. periodt 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <fcft/fcft.h>

struct fcft_font *fcft_clone(const struct fcft_font *font);

like, you include the header, you call the function, you get a font back. no cap, it's that simple 🙈

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay bestie, listen up: fcft_clone() creates a new instance by copying font. and here's the part that's giving main character energy — fcft internally uses reference counting, which means this operation is very fast. like, much faster than explicitly instantiating a new font using fcft_from_name(). not me being obsessed with how snappy that is 😭🔥

but here's the important bit, and I need you to actually read this one, fr fr: to free all resources associated with both the original font and the cloned font, fcft_destroy() must be called for both the original font and the clone. both of them. two calls. the original one doesn't get to skip out just because it got cloned 👑

⚠️ like lowkey do not forget the second fcft_destroy() — the clone has its own ref to clean up and it's not gonna clean itself up. two fonts, two destroys. iykyk 💀

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💜 RETURN VALUE 💜

• On success, fcft_clone() returns a pointer to a new fcft_font object. slay ✨
• On error, NULL is returned. which is the vibe check failing, but at least it's documented 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fcft_from_name()
• fcft_from_name2()
• fcft_destroy()

go read those too, they're all part of the same little family 🧚

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and that's the page!! 💅 cute little sign-off real quick: this was fcft 3.3.3, dated 2026-04-09, and the page is fcft_clone(3) — mwah, bye bestie, go free your fonts 🍓💖