I need to create a font that looks like normal but is not transparent in the center of openings. Is there a way to do this? I’ve tried using multiple glyphs but when I colorize one, all of them change color or the white becomes transparent when I export the font. I need the fonts to look like this but imagine the black background is white it’s impossible to show with a white background The purpose behind this is I put text on top of imagery all the time but outlined text simply shows the image through the outline. I need more of a “clouded” or “halo” effect.
You should be able to accomplish it with a color font, but it will only work with applications which support color fonts. Right now that support is rather limited.
Right now Internet Explorer running on Windows 8.1 and Firefox version 32 (on all platforms) already support the Microsoft color extension, as shown here:
Here is the Firefox demo page:
Monstre Color Demo Page
And the FontCreator font project; only the Captial A is included:
MonstreOnlyA.fcp (5.89 KB)
Thank you. I will download your project and see if I can figure out what I may be doing wrong. I try to bring in a separate glyph above the “white” glyph but it does not seem to work. What I am working off of is literally the .gif I posted (just of the individual letters). I import the image and clear out the extra contours until I have only the bottom layer. I colorize it. Where I am hanging up is how to “add” basically the same glyph on top of that. FC8 doesn’t seem to allow me to add or import the original or same glyph, nor can I freehand draw the contours in while in color mode. I can get an exclaimation mark to show up but when I click out of color mode everything disappears. I can freehand or contour in the lines but they just end up as transparency and I can’t change the direction or FC8 updates the outline.
I assume I am on the right track and very close to my goal output as when I test the font and type a capital A, nothing but white shows up but I can highlight the space. That means the “halo” is there, I just need to figure out how to get the second glyph into place. I’ve read the manual and gone over it a hundred times (insanity by definition) but it either seems to be missing a step or else I am missing something.
You need to compose multi-coloured glyphs from two or more members. Show the members palette and add the white background glyph below the letter A.
Thank you. I haven’t quite gotten the hang of using the “palette” feature in FC8 yet. But that’s great advice!
You guys are awesome! Just one more step! OK! I figured out the members palette and have the 2 of the "A"s in the palette. I have them so they change colors when I “move to front” between the two. Now I just need to figure out how to separate out the contours?
OK! LOL! So, I have this:
How I accomplished this: I copied the member into a new, unused glyph and cleared away the outline. Then I copied all of the contours except the outline into a second unused glyph and colorized the outline white. In the “A” glyph I simply “added” the glyphs into the “A” glyph. On the glyph management screen, everything is perfect.
Where the snag is now coming is in the “A” glyph itself. When I go into ColorMode, everything looks perfect. But when I am out of color mode just the outline is visible
And this is the resulting output when I export. On a white background, the letter A does type as a black halo and I did import into CAD and it did come in as a white halo. I just need the contours to show up. Could this be a problem with the colorfont? As you can see, I have the white halo! yay! Just need the internal contours to show up! So exciting, I know 
As mentioned earlier, color fonts will only work with applications which support color fonts. Right now only a few applications support it. I don’t think AutoCAD is one of them.
If you need yours fonts to work with it, you most likely need to overlay two fonts, or come up with some other workaround.
I’m not entirely sure but will keep trying and hopefully come up with a solution. As I said, I’m not sure what is happening between the colorizing and the editing but it seems that I am doing something wrong. Because when I follow the colorizing video, everything previews correctly, but when I use the same function with my outlined style, it doesn’t preview or test correctly. So I at least know my system can handle color fonts because I was able to test and preview them successfully. In opposition to the font I am working on which doesn’t preview or test correctly. It’s got to be something small.