On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 12:51:45PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look: > https://www.fontspace.com/category/color > > can we do this to linux? e.g. in urxvt? > > also can we make our own color fonts? > e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them?
Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used a proprietary extension to OpenType that allowed them to store raster images (PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create the emoji font [1, 2, 3]. However, this is very atypical and not good practice when designing fonts. Few, if any, of the fonts on that website actually lock you to using a single colour; they're just displayed like that to show visitors what they look like. If you want those particular effects, you could use something like GIMP to make the fonts transparent on another layer and then use the gradient tool. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/9534902 [2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/64917 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c120 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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