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adobe-type-tools / opentype-svg

Tools and sample files for making OpenType-SVG fonts
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Help with results would be appreciated #31

Open SB2020-eye opened 1 week ago

SB2020-eye commented 1 week ago

Hi. I am working on an OTF SVG color font. I used opentype-svg to add only the glyphs a, b, and c, to test and see if the result worked.

The following is a screenshot of the only program I have found so far that allows me to see my color glyphs in any way on my Windows 11 PC: Character Map UWP (in the Microsoft Store and at https://github.com/character-map-uwp/Character-Map-UWP).

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(In case it's hard to tell, a, b, and c are indeed color--a dark brown color.)

I removed height and width parameters from my svgs. I also tried opentype-svg with and without the -k parameter, with the same results.

  1. Does anyone know why the color glyphs are bigger than the non-color glyphs and why their baseline is so much lower?

  2. Does anyone know of a free program or platform with which I can actually test and use my font to see if it works with the color glyphs? (Or, if there's not one, is there someone with one of the non-free programs who would be willing to let me send them the .otf file and test to see if it the font works as it should?)

Thanks in advance.

miguelsousa commented 1 week ago

Hi. Since you're using an exiting font to generate the SVGs (that are to be added to the same font) I would expect that these instructions would work just fine. As for a free tool for testing fonts, FontGoggles is a very good one, but it's only available for maOS.