All this talk of browsers supporting color SVG fonts is exciting: gradients, transparencies, strokes, patterns, embedded bitmaps. Could this SVG font technology could be used to support monochrome SVG fonts? Picture a display typeface with a semi-transparent calligraphic effect. Where strokes overlap, it looks more opaque. At one end of the stroke, there's more ink than at the end of the stroke. I can use current OpenType SVG font technology to create this. But the color is absolute. If I use black shapes with transparency gradients the user can't change the colour of the font. What I want if for the users to be able to use them like normal, non color fonts. Select the text, change the colour; just like they've been doing since time immemorial.
And I also wan to use embedded monochrome bitmaps. Rather than being limited to using complex geometry to create textures, embedded black & transparent bitmaps could be used to create texture and then have the user define the color.
Is this something that could be worked into the OpenType SVG color font format?
And I also wan to use embedded monochrome bitmaps. Rather than being limited to using complex geometry to create textures, embedded black & transparent bitmaps could be used to create texture and then have the user define the color.
Is this something that could be worked into the OpenType SVG color font format?