2012/6/2 William_J_G Overington <[email protected]>: > An interesting spin-off could be that the introduction of such an encoding > could lead to the introduction of chromatic font technology by industry.
I've been waiting for long for fonts embedding colorful glyphs (that also contain enough information for rendering the embedded colors with monochromatic patterns, also encoded in the font as a property of its internal colormap). Such thing is still not in OpenType, but it DOES exist in other font technologies (e.g. in SVG fonts, even though this is still an unfinished standard that does not meet the technical quality observed in OpentType, but that DOES use a much simpler and coherent design than the many incoherent tricks and deprecated items found in the OpenType family, including for such basic things such as metrics data which are a nightmare to make compatible).
