Seems like a very interesting move, but still not sure how its going to
impact technically. Looking forward hear from the experts.
Ref:Open Type mail list.
http://typophile.com/node/104174
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Today at the Microsoft //build conference in San Francisco, Dan McLachlan
of our Graphics team will talk about Windows 8.1 approach to color fonts.
We'd like to thank P22, Monotype, The Font Bureau and FontFont for
providing us with font data that we were able to use to test this approach.
Our implementation uses a base glyph for reference, which would be used for
non-color situations. A data structure, implemented as a new 'COLR' table
in OpenType, breaks down the base glyph into a separate set of glyphs, each
with its own z-order and single color reference. The color references are
handled has palette indices, with a separate table, 'CPAL' in OpenType that
resolves the RGBA colors actually used for the glyph.
We plan to submit documentation on this approach for standardization
through the ISO MPEG process (for inclusion in the Open Font Format) within
the next few weeks. However, if you'd like to see the approach in practice
you can download the Windows 8.1 Preview and see a color font (Segoe UI
Emoji) used on the touch enabled keyboard.
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Siji Sunny
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