How to merge fonts with color emoji

After 8 hours of desperately searching how to do this on the internet, I've finally found a way to merge color emoji font into a text font.

This repository is for people in the future who has the exact problem that I'm having.

This is a step-by-step tutorial to merge two fonts together while keeping the color in emojis.

STEP 1: Download FontLab

• Download FontLab from their official site, install and open it.

STEP 2: Open the fonts file

• After opening FontLab, click File -> Open Fonts on the top left.
• You need to open the base font and the emoji font you want to merge.

STEP 3: Merge the fonts

• Select the Emoji font tab you've just opened, click anywhere on the characters table.
• Press CTRL+A CTRL+C to copy the characters.
• Select the Base font tab, click anywhere on the characters table.
• Press CTRL+V to paste the characters you've just copied from emoji.
• A box will appear, select the Append glyphs, keep existing glyphs unchanged option.

• After doing this, the color emojis should appear in the Base font.

  

STEP 4: Export the font

• Click File -> Export Font As
• Click the Customize button in the bottom right of the box.

• Scroll down and check the OT+COLR: Windows (TT-only) option.

  

RESULT:

• Two .ttf files should appear in the folder that you've exported to.

• The font with -COLR at the end of the name is the merged font with color emoji.

  

Downloads:

• Here are the Segoe UI fonts that I've merged, in case you need exactly these fonts, I'll leave them here for you:
  • Segoe UI Color Emoji
  • Segoe UI Color Emoji Bold
  • Segoe UI Color Emoji Italic
  • Segoe UI Color Emoji Bold Italic

tags: Fontforge, FontLab, Glyphs, Fontcreator, Fonts merge, Fonts combine, Font merge, Font combine