Сan’t figure out what the bug is and how to get around it? Why doesn’t FontCreator 14 save color glyphs to the the project file? Unfortunately, the poor manual is silent about this. Here’s the project file. TMP.fcp (9 KB)
After reopen the file, the changes are not saved. Is it the FontCreator crooked, or am I missing something?
You seem to be using an older version (FontCreator 14.0.0.2794) from June last year, while we did solve an issue related to storing color glyph members in FontCreator 14.0.0.2814 [August 20, 2021].
In the mean time we have fixed numerous other bugs and added several improvements, so we strongly recommend you to update. You can do this with FontCreator. From the main menu, select Help → Check for Updates.
Hi, I’m chiming in on this thread because of a question about creating colored fonts. I downloaded TMP.fcp and see some colored glyphs at the end in FontCrea-tor. For example, I deleted EAR_1 and wanted to insert my own image via >Tools >Import Image. However, the import button is grayed out even if I don’t delete the existing image.
If I go to any other glyph, e.g. “A”, I cannot delete it, the corresponding context menu entry is grayed out.
But I can insert an image via >Tools >Import Image
but it is not displayed in color
Hi Bhikkhu, thanks for your help.
have now imported the image into letter A in Monochrome mode, set the desired size in Points mode.
now when i switch to Color mode nothing is visible.
I guess I am still doing something wrong
Hi Bhikkhu,
I use FontCreator only occasionally to create or change fonts and due to my lack of typography knowledge I always reach my limits very quickly, even more so because the program offers so many possibilities. Now I actually just wanted to display two colored symbols in a font.
Unfortunately I couldn’t do that even with the nice tutorial, probably because of the lack of background knowledge.
Thanks for your help
best Regards
Günther
Hi Erwin,
I hope I am not too cumbersome. I load the template TMP.fcp in FontCreator and select e.g. the glyph EAR_1
set Monocrome and delete the image
I import the desired image via Import image
and set Selection Mode to Point
right mouse button - context menu - Colorize is grayed out
best regards - Günther
I have carefully read the explanations of the Tutorial on Creating OpenType Colour Fonts (I have extra translated into German, so that I understand it better), the help file on Coloured Glyphs and also the toolbar for Color Glyph Members, but unfortunately I get no further with my modest knowledge.
I downloaded the template file TMP.fcp from Bhikkhu in the second post of this thread. When I open this in FontCreator, I see some colored glyphs. Replacing them with my two bitmaps or inserting my bitmaps as, say, letter A and B, unfortunately doesn’t work for me.
If it’s not too outrageous, could you give me a quick guide on how to accomplish this, i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd …
I am not sure what part is unclear, so let me try some basic steps:
Start a new font
Open an empty glyph
Import an image
Select Colorize
From here you will now have the monochrome glyph outline and for the same glyph you will have a color variant that is made out of the monochrome outline, but with a defined color.
There are two panels that help with adding other glyphs as members for your color glyph as well as defining color for the members, Palette and Members.
Hi Erwin,
thanks for your patience and advice, especially the link to your video.
My thought error was probably that I thought the color image would be transferred to the font but it seems that only the outlines can be filled with color. Nevertheless, this helps me a lot.
Hi Erwin,
Unfortunately, I have to ask again. I have now inserted two images into a new file and colorized them.
When I change the color of the second image, the color of the first image also changes, how can I prevent this.
Open the specific glyph in color mode and then select a different color item from the palette panel, then click the member to make it use the other palette color.
Hi Erwin, I am slightly in despair
I got the color assignment right now, my two characters have different colors.
But when I install the font, the characters are only displayed in black and white in Word, for example.
So I tested a free color font “Blockinfo”.
FC21
but the same effect in Word, only black and white.
Do I have to change anything?
Concerning your own font, make sure you have COLR (layered glyphs) in the Export Settings dialog.
The other font contains SVG color glyphs and those are not supported by Word. We consider SVG a dead end, even though it is heavily supported by Adobe software.
