“chromatic.pdf” is my attempt to use colour to show the different surfaces of a three-dimensional shape: a carved letter.
There are at least three ways to make a multi-coloured font:
(1) use a format that supports colours;
(2) use layering; and
(3) use glyphs that have an advance width of zero.
I have chosen the last.
Since it did not occur to me that this was possible until I saw something similar elsewhere, I thought I should share it.
Alan Bernard Hughes
A chromatic font
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Re: A chromatic font
That is excellent.
William Overington
7 June 2014
Thank you for sharing.honest.bern wrote: Since it did not occur to me that this was possible until I saw something similar elsewhere, I thought I should share it.
William Overington
7 June 2014
Re: A chromatic font
That's a clever idea. I'm particularly interested to see this, since I recently used the carved letters of the Painter Umesh font from HandPaintedType.com when experimenting with coloured fonts in FC7.5.