FreeType 2.8 Completes OpenType Variation Fonts Support

[mr_tawan]

Okay. I tried with Qt that does support color bitmap fonts, but still ran into issues with black and white emojies. Turned out I had the wrong font. Also it support a somewhat ackward since it is treated as a bitmap font that shouldn't be scaled. Perhaps it should be considered a bitmap font that _should_ be scaled instead.

AFAIK the color emoji is not standardized currently. There are 3 versions of, if my memory served me right. The embeded bitmap proposed by Google, the embeded SVG by Apple, and the layered glyph by Microsoft. However if the renderer does not support the version included in the font then it would use the fallback glyph, which B&W like any other glyphs.

Personally I like the Microsoft's proposal the most. SVG sounds like overkill to me (and it requires additional dependency), and embedded Bitmap seems too limited. Anyway I believe that Freetype already supports the Google's proposal (by the code that Google contributed.).

[carewolf]

I think the problem is that Pango does not support color emoji.

Okay. I tried with Qt that does support color bitmap fonts, but still ran into issues with black and white emojies. Turned out I had the wrong font. Also it support a somewhat ackward since it is treated as a bitmap font that shouldn't be scaled. Perhaps it should be considered a bitmap font that _should_ be scaled instead.

[uid313]

You have to take the right one. Microsoft has both a monochrome and color version of the font. On non-Windows 10 it was only monochrome, and I think they are both still there in Windows 10. Also note there a multiple bitmap font formats, make sure you get a color font format supported by freetype (though I think they do use the MS one, but better check).

I think the problem is that Pango does not support color emoji.

[carewolf]

My biggest font problem on Linux is that Pango doesn't support color emoji.

On Windows 10 you have emoji, but not on Linux. I copied the Segoe UI font from Windows 10 to my Linux installation but I still don't get pretty colored emoji like on Windows. I only get monochrome emoji. This is because Pango lacks support.

You have to take the right one. Microsoft has both a monochrome and color version of the font. On non-Windows 10 it was only monochrome, and I think they are both still there in Windows 10. Also note there a multiple bitmap font formats, make sure you get a color font format supported by freetype (though I think they do use the MS one, but better check).

[Anvil]

be GREAT to get this in F26 as a late inclusion, surely Fesco could do that.

[yturmisil]

The news text reads like Microsoft has developed and contributed the code to Freetype.

They didn't.

[uid313]

My biggest font problem on Linux is that Pango doesn't support color emoji.

On Windows 10 you have emoji, but not on Linux. I copied the Segoe UI font from Windows 10 to my Linux installation but I still don't get pretty colored emoji like on Windows. I only get monochrome emoji. This is because Pango lacks support.

[Daktyl198]

I've always preferred FreeType font rendering to other OSes. Glad to see it didn't take them too long to do such a big and important update to OpenType

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Stuff like this is massive for DTP and content creation in general. I am looking forward to leveraging it.

[carewolf]

What LOAD_TARGET_LCD is now a variant of LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT? But LOAD_TARGET_LCD is what we use for full hinting.. So now full hinting in some applications will be light?