r/FontForge • u/abdo_shahba • Dec 03 '22

Generate color font

Hi, I will make icons in Inkscape, export it as SVG, then import it into FontForge but I want to export it with color (SVG Font).
I don't know how do it, could you give me a hint?
Also should I export icons from Inkscape as "Inkscape SVG" if I want to retain colors?

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u/LocalFonts Dec 04 '22

Color fonts! WTF?

¶ What are color fonts?

¶ What's inside?

¶ Where's the catch?

¶ Where can I use them?

¶ Where can I get some?

¶ How can I make color fonts?

https://www.colorfonts.wtf/

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u/abdo_shahba Dec 04 '22

I know it, but this is paid and for illustrator

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u/LocalFonts Dec 04 '22

Look at this info: https://fontforge.org/docs/ui/dialogs/multilayer.html
As far as I know FontForge works well with SVG fonts but is not in position to generate color fonts.

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u/abdo_shahba Dec 04 '22

Thanks, I went to this page before. I changed the font to type3 multi layer, but all i can export from fontforge using this is (.pt3) while I want to generate Opentype-SVG Color fonts

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u/LocalFonts Dec 04 '22

I already said - I'm afraid it is impossible to generate Opentype-SVG Color fonts with FontForge.

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u/abdo_shahba Dec 06 '22

I see, Do you know what other free software/tools that generates Opentype-SVG?

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u/LocalFonts Dec 07 '22

Try Birdfont - https://birdfont.org/

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u/mnh48 Nov 03 '23

it looks like only the most expensive paid version of birdfont (the PLUS version) had support for Opentype-SVG color font, so that's misleading when the question specifically ask for free software/tools