On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > 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
Addendum. Longer explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Color_fonts -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA
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