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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 12:51:45PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: |
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> hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look: |
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> https://www.fontspace.com/category/color |
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> can we do this to linux? e.g. in urxvt? |
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> also can we make our own color fonts? |
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> e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them? |
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Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used a |
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proprietary extension to OpenType that allowed them to store raster images |
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(PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create the emoji font |
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[1, 2, 3]. However, this is very atypical and not good practice when designing |
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fonts. Few, if any, of the fonts on that website actually lock you to using a |
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single colour; they're just displayed like that to show visitors what they look |
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like. |
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If you want those particular effects, you could use something like GIMP to make |
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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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