Yes, of course, but isn't that an X11 library that will pull in all of X11 and friends on a server that does not need a GUI ? I run all my servers pure command line, out of principle.

hilaire@pchome ~ $ apt-cache show
        libfreetype6

Package: libfreetype6

Priority: optional

Section: libs

Installed-Size: 895

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
        <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original-Maintainer: Steve Langasek
        <vorlon@debian.org>

Architecture: amd64

Source: freetype

Version: 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4),
        zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

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