Color glyphs don't work in Adobe Illustrator CC [solved]

reti · October 27, 2019, 9:06pm

I wanted only to test color glyphs from attached font. They don’t work in Adobe Ilustrator CC. Does someone know why? This is probably a good lead: a properly functioning color font EmojiOne has “svg” icon (screenshot). What should I do to make my font have the same status?

Austria-Regular test.otf (28.8 KB)

MikeW · October 29, 2019, 2:48pm

Your CLR font works fine in anything supporting the COLR format, here using QuarkXPress:

I do not have a current subscription for Adobe products, but your COLR format can be converted to an SVG format using TransType, again here in QXP:

reti · October 29, 2019, 3:18pm

Exactly this way I wanted to test today. Great! I think it’s solved. Thank you very much!

reti · October 30, 2019, 11:34am

COLR format can be converted to an SVG format using TransType, again here in QXP

I can’t find TransType in QXP. Where it is?

Bhikkhu_Pesala · October 30, 2019, 11:42am

It is a separate program from FontLab TransType

reti · October 30, 2019, 12:27pm

Great. Thanks!

ErwinDenissen · February 15, 2025, 4:59pm

I’m aware this is an older topic, but just for reference: it’s straightforward in FontCreator.

Simply open the font, go to Font → Export Settings, change the color format from COLR to SVG, and then export the font again. This will give you a color font in the SVG format.