Re: coloured characters

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Fri Dec 24 2010 - 13:55:47 CST

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"Phil Carter" <phil dot carter at yahoo dot com> wrote:

>>> A font technology that has information for using two or more colours
>>> within the same glyph would be possible, though, as far as I know,
>>> is not available at the present time.
>>
>> AFAIC, Microsoft Windows allows the use of colored raster fonts, but
>> nobody cares about it.
>
> Postscript type 3 fonts can use color, but I guess it never caught on.

People want to specify text color via style -- CSS or word-processor
styling or whatever -- the same way they specify font face and size and
bold/italic/underlined/outlined and other non-plain-text attributes.

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