This allows us to use actual SVG files for a glyph. But I rather like the idea of a crispy, infinitely scalable font, so we’re going to create a SVG-in-OpenType font, as per Adobe and Mozilla’s spec. Now, there are font formats that could work directly with these PNGs (Apple’s SBIX format and Google’s CBDT/CBLC format). We’ll end up with a directory full of four-color PNGs like a.png, b.png, c.png, etc. As the characters scroll by, we take screenshots, and cut out and save each individual letter. Getting the charset out was a no-brainer: load up the program in a C64 emulator, tweak the memory so the scrolltext contains every character in the font, and start up the program. It’s a nice three-color font, or four colors if you count the background. The font (or charset, as it was called in those days) will be taken from a warez collection called “More Tools”. The font I’d like to convert is by the Commodore 64 graphician Compyx, member of the legendary demo group Focus. It was awesome.īut this isn’t a trip down memory lane, so let’s get get down to action: we’re going to transfer one of those demoscene fonts over to the modern OpenType format. It were the days of hand-pixeled fonts, used in demos and intros to proudly present warez, greet the elite, and fight out digital turf wars with other 14-year-olds. The golden age of color fonts: the demoscene daysĪnd when I say old school, I’m talking about the days of Razor 1911, Fairlight, TRIAD, 1001 crew, TRSI and other underground gangs of teenage microcomputer rebels. And while today’s type foundries are working on a brand new generation of fonts, I figured I’d go back to a generation where multicolor fonts were all-around, and bring some of those old school fonts to the modern browsers. There aren’t many color fonts around yet, so I decided to try and make one myself. Compyx: creating a multicolor 8‑bit font for browsersĪfter my little CSS hack for multicolor icon fonts I discovered browsers were about to support true multicolor fonts.
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