- From: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:52:00 -0600
- To: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
- CC: Matthew Millar <mattmill30@hotmail.com>, daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com, www-style@w3.org
On 3/3/2010 9:04 AM, Thomas Phinney wrote: >> Assuming you were to have a library of fonts or able to make your own fonts, >> this would also give you a bit more of the desired freedom; I don't think it >> would accommodate multi-color bullets though. I wonder if SVG fonts allow >> for multiple colors... > > If it were a custom font, you would deal with multiple colors via > distinct glyphs, which would be made to overlap by giving all but the > last glyph zero advance width. The colors would be specified manually, > as that data is not part of the font proper. > > This is how (for example) multi-color logos are put into custom fonts. Hmm... Learn something new every day. They still haven't covered a lot of the little details about typography in the publishing classes I'm taking. That doesn't answer the original question about colored SVG fonts though. That would be a way to solve this on the Web anyway if you could just link to a font with colored characters via CSS3 Fonts.
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