[gentoo-user] color fonts?

[gentoo-user] color fonts?

[Caveman Al Toraboran]

hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look:
https://www.fontspace.com/category/color

can we do this to linux?  e.g. in urxvt?

also can we make our own color fonts?
e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them?

rgrds,
cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

[Ashley Dixon]

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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 12:51:45PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look:
> https://www.fontspace.com/category/color
> 
> can we do this to linux?  e.g. in urxvt?
> 
> also can we make our own color fonts?
> e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them?

Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used  a
proprietary extension to OpenType that  allowed  them  to  store  raster  images
(PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create the  emoji  font
[1, 2, 3].  However, this is very atypical and not good practice when  designing
fonts.  Few, if any, of the fonts on that website actually lock you to  using  a
single colour; they're just displayed like that to show visitors what they  look
like.

If you want those particular effects, you could use something like GIMP to  make
the fonts transparent on another layer and then use the gradient tool.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/9534902
[2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/64917
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c120

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Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

[Ashley Dixon]

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

Addendum. Longer explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Color_fonts

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Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

[Valmor F. de Almeida]

On 7/4/20 7:51 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> hi - some colors are fancy schmancy, look:
> https://www.fontspace.com/category/color
>
> can we do this to linux?  e.g. in urxvt?
>
> also can we make our own color fonts?
> e.g. can OTB fonts have color encoded in them?
>
> rgrds,
> cm.
>
Maybe this is a place to start; for terminals:

https://pypi.org/project/rich/

Just a thought.
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Valmor