First Batch of Color Fonts Arrives on Google Fonts

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Even if you’ve never heard of “color fonts,” you probably use them everyday; emoji are color fonts. Color fonts enable color specification within the font file—and one glyph can have multiple colors. Non-color fonts (i.e., most existing fonts) only specify where color goes. A glyph can only be one color, and if you want your type to be something other than black, you have to manually change it.

Emoji is the most obvious use case for color fonts, but type designers are running with this technology to make highly expressive and customizable typefaces—especially in the newest format, COLRv1.

What’s so special about the COLRv1 font format?

There are a few things. First, COLRv1 is a binary vector format (unlike the bitmap color fonts of yore), which means fonts can scale without becoming pixelated. And by layering glyphs and then reusing those layers in similar glyphs, file sizes stay compact.


 

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