[MPEG-OTSPEC] Scheduling Zoom meeting to discuss new proposals and AHG recommendations

[Dave Crossland]

Seems to me that glyf2 should support bitmaps then.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 2:15 AM Georg Seifert <typogeorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Pixel based fonts might seem to be obsolete but there are many things that
> can’t be easily expressed with vectors. So I strongly recommend to keep
> support for pixels. A very nice example of a commercially color pixel font:
> https://liebefonts.com/fonts/liebeheide
>
> Best
> Georg Seifert
>
>
> > On 2. Jul 2023, at 00:17, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 23:44:23 GMT+8, Chris Lilley <chris at w3.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> With COLRv1, I now regard that as the sole viable format for chromatic
> >> fonts and thus, SVG-in-OT (and the various pixel-based color formats)
> >> are purely legacy.
> >
> > Hmm, OT-SVG support was only added to Freetype in 2021. Having just
> experienced some problems a few weeks ago with it, and sent in the fix
> myself, I went a bit further and ported the OT-SVG support to freetype-py
> in the last few days. (I.e. just landed last night, you can draw with
> OT-SVG color font with python...).
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