Colour font discussion in 2002

[William_J_G Overington]

Hi

Thank you for your interest.

The following introduction is good.

https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/create-opentype-color-fonts 
<https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/tutorials/create-opentype-color-fonts>

Here are links to documentation files from Microsoft.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/cpal 
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/cpal>

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/colr 
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/colr>

Here is a link to an overview of the OpenType font format.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype 
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype>

Best regards,

William Overington

Friday 27 November 2020


------ Original Message ------
From: "Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode" <unicode at unicode.org>
To: "Unicode Discussion" <unicode at unicode.org>; "William_J_G Overington" 
<wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Friday, 2020 Nov 27 At 17:53
Subject: Re: Colour font discussion in 2002
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:39 AM William_J_G Overington via Unicode
<unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

So  when I saw the solution that Microsoft produced I was very impressed
by the elegant and straightforward way that the people at Microsoft
encoded colour fonts, as that elegant way to achieve the result had not
occurred to me.

For those of us not familiar, can you provide a link to the
description? A casual search for "color font microsoft" brings up
results that say there are several ways to "do" color fonts in
Windows, so it's not immediately clear what you're referring to.

Sławomir Osipiuk


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