RE: SVG Fonts inside of OpenType fonts? [Cross-post from www-font@w3.org]

On Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:50 PM John Hudson wrote:
> 
> At the W3C gathering in Lyon last year, Christopher Slye (Adobe) and I
> had an interesting conversation with Doug Schepers (W3C) regarding
> 'Fonts 2.0', and the possibilities of W3C working with the font
> community to identify what sort of things on screen typography might
> need -- both in terms of fancy stuff like colour, and also improving
> text reading experience -- and defining these as W3 recommendations.

I realize that these discussions are only preliminary, but we need to consider the current situation where ISO/IEC SC29/WG11 is now the home for a standardization activity related to OT/OFF. I'd think that they would want to continue this activity and, therefore, would be open for suggestions for the new work items via existing ISO/W3C liaison relationship. It doesn't mean that W3C cannot play a major role in defining this new features and functionality, but from the logistics and procedural points of view it might be prudent to define this new SFNT format extension as a new amendment to the existing OFF standard, getting all interested parties involved in this activity and working towards achieving consensus among them.

Regards,
Vlad

Received on Tuesday, 28 June 2011 19:10:30 UTC