> But if it is correcting the gamma it must assume that my monitor has > a certain gamma?
As Allan has written: FreeType does *not* interact with gamma at all! If you want to be very precise you could say that FreeType doesn't return bitmaps with color or grayscale pixels. Instead, it returns *coverage* values (i.e., how much area of a pixel is covered by ink), and the calling graphics library has to further process it. This includes application of gamma correction. Werner