# Color or Pics into a font??

**URL:** <https://forum.high-logic.com/t/color-or-pics-into-a-font/1137>\
**Category:** FontCreator - Support\
**Created:** [December 31, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/color-or-pics-into-a-font/1137 "2005-12-31T02:01:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![William](https://forum.high-logic.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@William](https://forum.high-logic.com/u/William)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/color-or-pics-into-a-font/1137/2 "2006-01-02T20:16:52Z")

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TrueType fonts are monochrome.

Colour effects can be achieved with care by overlapping the same text from several fonts of a collection of fonts designed for colour work.

For example the following set from P22 from the [http://www.p22.com/Lanston/](http://www.p22.com/Lanston/) section of the [http://www.p22.com](http://www.p22.com) webspace.

[http://www.p22.com/lanston/products/jacobeaninitials.html](http://www.p22.com/lanston/products/jacobeaninitials.html)

[http://www.p22.com/lanston/Jacobean.pdf](http://www.p22.com/lanston/Jacobean.pdf)

For example, my own Galileo Lettering collection of fonts and Chronicle Text collection of fonts.

> **[Fonts designed by William Overington](http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm)**

> [@Galileo Lettering font](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/galileo-lettering-font/834/1):
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> The Galileo Lettering font is now published, as from 12.44 pm today. William Overington 5 March 2005

> [@Chronicle Text font](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/chronicle-text-font/668/1):
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> Supplementary note of 2 December 2009 I have been reading this post and realize that it is in need of updating. I had the idea of the font being shareware at that time but gave up that idea not long afterwards. The font is now a free download. End of supplementary note of 2 December 2009 I have just published the Chronicle Text font onto the web. The font is as follows. [http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CHRONTXT.TTF](http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/CHRONTXT.TTF) The file with the shareware licensing information is as follows. [htt…](http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/chrontxt.txt)

Hopefully font technology will develop so as to have chromatic fonts.

One idea is my suggested eutofont format.

> [@The eutofont font format](https://forum.high-logic.com/t/the-eutofont-font-format/683/1):
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> Some time ago I devised a font format which I call the eutofont font format. There are some documents available linked from the following web page. I am hoping that one day it will be possible to save a font using “Save to eutofont format” directly from Font Creator Program and also to read in a font directly into Font Creator Program using “Read from eutofont format” . The eutofont system is still experimental. In order for the eutofont font format to become successful there need to be app…

I have not done any more with the eutofont format since, yet I am hoping that it may get taken up some day.

William Overington

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