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

[Adam Twardoch (Lists)]

COLR could be made towork with sbix+PNG (which is a good format). Since
COLR does overlaying and compositing, and takes existing glyphs as sources,
these sources could he glyf/CFF for vectors and sbix for bitmaps.

On Sun, 2 Jul 2023 at 18:14, Georg Seifert <typogeorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or add a Bitmap Paint type to COLRv2?
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> On 2. Jul 2023, at 16:11, Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com> wrote:
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> Seems to me that glyf2 should support bitmaps then.
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> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 2:15 AM Georg Seifert <typogeorg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> 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
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>> Best
>> Georg Seifert
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>> > On 2. Jul 2023, at 00:17, Hin-Tak Leung <htl10 at users.sourceforge.net>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 at 23:44:23 GMT+8, Chris Lilley <chris at w3.org>
>> wrote:
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>> >> 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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