How to change characters in a font to color

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Hi!

I just upgraded from version 6.5 to 8.0 because you’ve added the ability to use color in fonts.

I have a font set that I would like to make a color font, but when if I edit a specific character and click on Color Mode, the character disappears.

Can you please let me know how to change existing characters to color ones (and perhaps add fills too)?

Thanks!

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Normal Glyphs are not visible in Colour Mode.

First, right-click, and select Colorize.

Did you watch the Video?

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Thank you very much for helping me with this.

I both watched the video and managed to get a character colorized.

May I ask one last question?

If I colorize characters in a .ttf (truetype font) file, will the new colored font show up in color in most Windows programs?

Thanks again.

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I was successful, thanks to you.

Can .OTF fonts be used in most Windows programs and will they appear in color?

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The more color fonts exist, the more applications will suppprt them. Right now the color technology is only available on Windows 8.1 using Internet Explorer or mail, but as soon as the specs are officially part of OpenType more software will follow.

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Thank you so much for all of your help!

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Last week Mozilla released a new version (version 32.0) of their web browser Firefox which supports color fonts.

For font color support Firefox doesn’t rely on the DirectDraw API which is used in Window 8.1 and above, so Firefox running on other platforms (Windows Vista, 7, 8, but also OS X, Debian, Android, etc) also show colorful fonts!