Re: [css-fonts] controlling palette use in multi-colour fonts

Cameron McCormack:
> Background:
> 
> The latest revision of the OpenType specification supports multi-
> coloured glyphs.  There are three formats that can be used:
> 
> * CBDT table - coloured bitmaps
> * COLR table - coloured vector glyphs made up of multiple glyf/CFF
>   glyphs rendered in sequence in the same position with different RGBA
>   colours
> * SVG table - SVG-defined glyphs

If you’d like a more detailed overview about the different coloured
glyph formats, I gave a talk about them last year:

  http://mcc.id.au/2014/colourful-opentype/

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Monday, 9 February 2015 23:39:06 UTC