Draw text into a Matrix.
using FreeTypeAbstraction
# load a font
face = FTFont("hack_regular.ttf")
# render a character
img, metric = renderface(face, 'C')
# render a string into an existing matrix
myarray = zeros(UInt8,100,100)
renderstring!(myarray, "hello", face, (10,10), 90, 10, halign=:hright)
credits to @aaalexandrov from whom most of the code stems.