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.
CTRL+A
CTRL+C
to copy the characters.CTRL+V
to paste the characters you've just copied from emoji.Append glyphs, keep existing glyphs unchanged
option.After doing this, the color emojis should appear in the Base font.
Scroll down and check the OT+COLR: Windows (TT-only)
option.
The font with -COLR
at the end of the name is the merged font with color emoji.
tags: Fontforge, FontLab, Glyphs, Fontcreator, Fonts merge, Fonts combine, Font merge, Font combine