FontCreator and colour fonts

[William]

I have been starting to try to produce a colour font.

I know that the specification is not yet published, but I am setting up a project file with glyphs.

Here are my findings thus far.

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Tuesday 2 July 2013

11:25 am

Using FontCreator 7.0.1 (build 436)

Open GALILEOL.TTF

Save Project As... Galileo_colour.fcp

Open GALILEOE.TTF

Highlight every glyph from exclamation to the end.

Copy onto the clipboard.

GALILEOL.TTF

Highlight every glyph from exclamation to the end.

Insert one glyph after each selected glyph.

Paste from the clipboard.

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I now need to add a glyph name to each of the filled glyphs.

For example, exclam.fill quotedbl.fill and so on.

If High-Logic implements the colour fonts tables, could High-Logic consider producing a software facility so that each of those unmapped glyphs could become named by entering .fill in a textbox somewhere and clicking a button please?

In fact, the Galileo Lettering set is of five fonts, so a way of copying and pasting all the glyphs into place would be useful.

For example, by having a facility for each of Select All after space, Select All after space that are mapped, Select All after space that have the suffix that is in the textbox.

William Overington

2 July 2013

[Erwin Denissen]

If High-Logic implements the colour fonts tables, could High-Logic consider producing a software facility so that each of those unmapped glyphs could become named by entering .fill in a textbox somewhere and clicking a button please?

We will first have to wait for the specs before we can oversee all new possibilities.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

FontCreator 7.5 was just released with support for Coloured Fonts.

I have updated My FontCreator Review with a brief overview of creating coloured fonts. See the user manual for more details.

Upgrade and start getting creative, but you will need the latest Windows 8.1 to use them. I don't see Serif supporting them for some time yet, but you never know.