> We would like to implement the colored font feature of freetype to > manage colored emoji. > > We already have a POC with colored emoji, but we have seen that some > of the glyph in our font (Segoe UI Emoji) are associated with a skin > tone modifier base on Fitzpatrick scale. > > We don't really know how to manage this. > > Is this something managed by the freetype library?
I'm not an expert, but as far as I know this has to be handled at a higher level by using Emoji ZWJ Sequences. https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-zwj-sequences.html Dominik, can you give more information? Werner