pimoroni-pico icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
pimoroni-pico copied to clipboard

Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon pimoroni

emojis support

Open RamblingGeekUK opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Could a font be added to support emojis?

RamblingGeekUK avatar Mar 23 '24 11:03 RamblingGeekUK

This is something that PicoVector (a vector graphics library for Pico) would be best at and, in theory, yes it could. Though they would be basic - FontAwesome-like - single colour icons. Actually I think the font tools could convert FontAwsome itself... 🤔

PicoVector is due for a significant rewrite, though, before it's ready for prime time.

Gadgetoid avatar Mar 25 '24 09:03 Gadgetoid

Great, would that work today? I'm working on the idea of using a 2 x 64 x 32 HUB75 Matrix with a InterState75 to display messages from Twitch Chat.. so would be good if it could display emotes.

RamblingGeekUK avatar Mar 25 '24 10:03 RamblingGeekUK

Great, would that work today?

Probably not...

To even get started you'd have to wrangle the font converter from this old version of Alright Fonts to convert some emoji codepoints from a suitable font. I haven't touched this stuff in a while so I don't have any insightful pointers - https://github.com/lowfatcode/alright-fonts/tree/e79124b71416fda85fd5e6439f87520b7f3cec8f

You'd probably be better off using PNG images if you want it done fast. Messing with fonts is going to be a journey!

Gadgetoid avatar Mar 25 '24 11:03 Gadgetoid