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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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> Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used |
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> a proprietary extension to OpenType that allowed them to store raster |
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> images (PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create the |
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> emoji font [1, 2, 3]. However, this is very atypical and not good practice |
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> when designing fonts. Few, if any, of the fonts on that website actually |
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> lock you to using a single colour; they're just displayed like that to show |
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> visitors what they look like. |
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> If you want those particular effects, you could use something like GIMP to |
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> make the fonts transparent on another layer and then use the gradient tool. |
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> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/9534902 |
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> [2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/64917 |
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> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c120 |
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Addendum. Longer explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Color_fonts |
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