Re: [css-fonts] selecting color or monochrome glyphs for emoji fonts

On 21/08/14 1:21 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

> I'd rather CSS doesn't go down that path.  CSS doesn't specify whether
> fonts should be hinted, use embedded bitmaps or not, render as subpixel,
> grayscale, etc.  It's out of the scope IMO.

I'm in two minds on this. My first instinct was the same as Behdad's: 
that this is a font rendering issue, and not an obvious candidate for 
CSS level authoring control. However, we do expect CSS to be able to 
control colour display of many page elements, including monochrome text.

While I can see the point of John's proposed font-variant-color 
property, I'm actually more interested in possible CSS interaction with 
colour font technologies that enable user-defined colour values for 
polychromatic glyphs. For example, the Microsoft CPAL table spec allows 
for user defined palettes, and CSS seems to me an obvious place to 
provide for author definition of colours.

JH