On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 11:22:12AM +0200, Philippe Verdy wrote: > 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).
https://wiki.mozilla.org/SVGOpenTypeFonts Regards, Khaled
