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Even more, fonts having multiple colors in a glyph was a huge complexity explosion for font rendering, for terminals, and more. You can see a very quick technic
by ploxiln 2y ago
Even more, fonts having multiple colors in a glyph was a huge complexity explosion for font rendering, for terminals, and more. You can see a very quick technical summary of different ways of encoding colors in fonts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Color_fonts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType#Color_fonts
But anyway, images should have remained separate things, png or whatever. Fonts rendering is complex enough with complex scripts e.g. Arabic, but that is the domain of fonts/shaping/rendering.
Such a hugely expensive technical mess because people want their stupid color emojis.
- philistine 2y agoYou want to stay stuck in the past, that's your call. I for one stay fascinated by the prospect of colour being introduced into written languages to denote intent now that we don't have to grapple with ink. We're talking on the scale of centuries, but even Arrival didn't have the guts to include colour into the lexicon of its alien language. With, of course, accessibility for those needing it.
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- yencabulator 2y agoYou can use colors in your document or email without needing it to be in a font.