caniuse Multicolor font support.

Multicolor font support.

Open Fyrd opened this issue 9 years ago • 18 comments

Multicolor font support. This is an OpenType feature that has four different implementations.

See https://pixelambacht.nl/chromacheck/

This covers the following four technologies

MS COLR/CPAL - available at https://caniuse.com/colr
CBDT/CBLC
OpenType SVG
SBIX

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May 12 '15 03:05 Fyrd

Seems like only very few browsers and only on selected platforms/os support this type of fonts. There are also couple of proposals how to achieve those and its not in any way standardised.

http://caniemoji.com
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333011
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=889401

@Fyrd shall we add it or not?

May 21 '15 09:05 pkuczynski

Aug 22 '15 19:08 rotsee

Seems like only very few browsers and only on selected platforms/os support this type of fonts.

True, but support is improving so this is a good candidate for caniuse. Currently Firefox supports SVG and COLR; Safari supports SBIX, Chrome supports nothing (for Webfonts; CBDT/CBLC is supported for installed fonts only) and Edge recently jumped from COLR/CPAL only (Edge <= 13) to supporting SBIX, SVG, and CBDT/CBLC as well with the Windows 10 update and Edge 14.

There are also couple of proposals how to achieve those and its not in any way standardised.

That is incorrect. There are four ways to do this; three are standardized by ISO and are part of the OpenType v.3 specification. The fourth, SBIX, is undocumented by Apple but has been reverse engineered by third parties.

Aug 14 '16 16:08 svgeesus

Oh and +1 test case https://pixelambacht.nl/chromacheck/ by @RoelN

Aug 14 '16 16:08 svgeesus

Shameless +1 even though I added this issue :)

Aug 16 '16 14:08 RoelN

Writing this because I wanted to get the latest info from CanIUse, and it wasn't there.

The previously undocumented SBIX flavor was added to OpenType 1.8, launched in October 2016. All four flavors are now formally part of OpenType and standardized by ISO in the Open Font Format.

Edge: Supports all four formats now Firefox: Supports OpenType SVG, MS COLR/CPAL Chrome: Supports CBDT as local fonts; Windows Chrome supports MS COLR/CPAL Safari: Supports Apple SBIX