question: how to make color variable fonts

adobe-type-tools / opentype-svg

Tools and sample files for making OpenType-SVG fonts

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question: how to make color variable fonts #19

Closed aminabedi68 closed 4 years ago

aminabedi68 commented 4 years ago

Hi thank you for this great tool, it's amazing! i'm an amateur font designer recently working on color fonts, i need to know how can i use opentype-svg along with fontmake to create a color variable font, fontmake input formats for variable font masters are UFO(with designspace file) and glyphs so i can't use otf(i tried to convert but didn't work).

miguelsousa commented 4 years ago

Thanks Amin.

The SVG table does not support variations, so at this time it's not possible to make variable OpenType-SVG fonts.

You can, however, make variable color fonts if you use the format that leverages the COLR and CPAL tables. The tools in this repo won't help you with that.

I suggest you get in touch with Roel Nieskens (@RoelN). He's a font wizard and has been stress-testing color font technology for years.