Color fonts

[DeeDeeG]

Background

Hi,

I saw on a blog post somewhere (I think) that you wanted to know of a good way to use the color versions of these in a real color font? I know of a number of open-source projects that make color fonts here on GitHub, so this should be doable.

The one I'm most familiar with is SCFBuild for making an Opentype SVG font. I actually used SCFBuild to make a color font from this repo once as a proof-of-concept, but I seem to have deleted the work at some point.

There's also projects to make:

• a COLR/CPAL font: https://github.com/mozilla/twemoji-colr
• a CBLC/CBDT font: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji

(not sure about sbix, but maybe?)

Deets / Questions

So I would just have a few questions on this to make sure I know what I'm doing before contributing anything:

• What format should these be? [SVG|COLR/CPAL|CBDT/CBLC|multiple??]
• Should the color font use Unicode emoji codepoints, or just abcdefg codepoints like the b/w font?
• Would it be best to include the code that generates the color font in this repo, or just document it/link to it somehow and include just the color font here?
• Is this repo too old to warrant doing this here? i.e. has it been too long? (Follow-up questions for if it hasn't been too long):
  • Would you want this as a pull request?
  • Would you prefer doing this yourself?

Thanks for the font!

Regardless of anything to do with making a color font, this was/is a cool project, so thanks!!

Best,

- DeeDeeG