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| From: | David De La Harpe Golden |
| Subject: | Re: Status of multicolor fonts? |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:59:33 +0000 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 |
On 16/12/15 14:37, Yuri Khan wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> wrote:Multicolor fonts seem to be becoming popular, especially for representing Emoji.Oh what the world is coming to. Whatever next, animated fonts?
As a historical note, "ColorFonts" and, yes, "AnimFonts" were in use on the Amiga many years ago now [1][2] - for video titling, presentations, etc. At the time they were implemented as bitmap fonts, but color and animated outline fonts on more modern devices are an obvious natural development...
[1] http://www.amigaforever.com/classic/internet/ [2] http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=38483
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