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Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
I suppose the proponents could start by trying to get support in TypeDrawers for setting colour formatting on text or specifying @font-face rules pointing at colour fonts of their creation, and then …2 -
Re: "If DirectWrite supports all color formats, how come not all browsers support them?"
We might suppose it wouldn't be a huge task, given that they have SVG support already. But it doesn't just happen for free, which was what I was explaining.1 -
Re: Oblique and Italic in same family
For certain reasons, and after some discussion, we (MS, Adobe, Apple, Google and others) ended up deciding to make slant and italic separate sub-family-variant axes in the extended-family model that …4 -
Re: Which OpenType feature could I use instead of contextual alternates?
These aren't swashes. It's not clear to me that "contextual" is really relevant either: you're not substituting (say) the default "m" with a different glyph when it's preceded or …3 -
Re: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
There is work still in progress in the Unicode Standard to introduce control characters that can be used to compose complex Egyptian hieroglyphs from the atomic elements (those that are already encod…4
