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What are color fonts?

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Standard vector font
OpenType-SVG vector font
Color vector font
OpenType-SVG bitmap font
Color bitmap font
Color fonts represent a key evolution in digital typography, introducing rich graphic features into font files. Thanks to new font formats, color fonts are finally becoming a reality for millions of creatives.

Color fonts can impact any type of text, since they may contain any type of characters, including emojis and icons.

Note that colors fonts are sometimes referred as chromatic fonts, which is actually a bit more accurate since they may include multicolored, grayed or even single-tone characters.
OpenType-SVG color fonts

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Where's the catch?

What about file size?
A color font file is generally larger than a regular font file, and a lot more when the font embeds high-resolution bitmap characters.

Whereas fonts usually weigh tens to a few hundred kilobytes, color vector fonts can reach hundreds of kilobytes to a couple megabytes depending on their visual complexity.

Color bitmap fonts may range from a few megabytes to tens of megabytes, and sizes increase when multiple color font formats are embedded in a single file.

What about text scalability?
Good question! Color fonts based on vector glyphs can be resized without any loss, just like any regular font.
Scaled color vector font
Scaled color vector font
Scaled color bitmap font
Scaled color bitmap font
Color bitmap fonts, like any other photo or pixel-based image, will scale properly up to a certain size, depending on their original resolution. Beyond that resolution, the lettering will look pixelated.

So whether you print a text with a color bitmap font or display it on high resolution screens, you will have to check up to which size it could properly scale.

As color bitmap fonts will be used in such different contexts like web or print, designers will need several versions of the bitmap font files, with full-size images for desktop editing and downscaled versions for the web.

Where can I use color fonts?

Now that OpenType-SVG has been adopted as the industry standard, there is good chance that you can start using color fonts across your favorite software and hardware.

We keep updating a list of apps and browsers that support color fonts. Here we go:

Apps
Color fonts Supported formats Comments
Photoshop 😀 SVG SBIX Since PS CC 2017
Illustrator 😀 SVG SBIX Since AI CC 2018
InDesign 😀 SVG SBIX Since ID CC 2019
QuarkXPress 😀 SVG SBIX COLR Since QuarkXPress 2018
Pixelmator 😀 SVG SBIX Since macOS 10.14 Mojave
Sketch 😀 SVG SBIX Since macOS 10.14 Mojave
Affinity Designer 😀 SVG Since macOS 10.14 Mojave
Paint.NET 😀 SVG Windows only
Adobe XD 😢 Vote here and here
Premiere Pro 😢 Vote here
After Effects 😢 Vote here and here

Web browsers
Color fonts Supported formats Comments
Microsoft Edge 😀 SVG SBIX COLR CBDT Since version 38 on Windows 10
Safari 😀 SVG SBIX COLR Since version 12, macOS 10.14 & iOS 12
Firefox 😀 SVG COLR Since version 26
Chrome 😢 COLR CBDT
Internet Explorer 😐 COLR Only on Windows 8.1
Opera 😐 COLR Only on Windows

Where can I get color fonts?

Color fonts are still pretty rare to find these days due to their novelty. But you're lucky as we started collecting awesome color fonts:
Gilbert Color (OpenType-SVG font)
Gilbert by Type With Pride
Pospky (OpenType-SVG font)
Popsky by Igor Petrovic
MEGAZERO (OpenType-SVG font)
MEGAZERO by Alex Trochut
AIres (OpenType-SVG font)
Aires by Yai Salinas
Abelone (OpenType-SVG font)
Abelone by Maria Grølund
Playbox (OpenType-SVG font)
Playbox by Matt Lyon
Bixa Color (OpenType-SVG font)
Bixa Color by NovoTypo & Roel Nieskens
Bungee Color (OpenType-SVG font)
Bungee color by David Jonathan Ross
OneLine Bold  (OpenType-SVG font)
OneLine Bold by Roman Kaer
And also visit the world's first color fonts collection on Creative Market.
Color fonts collection
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How can I create color fonts?

Are you inspired to turn your beautiful lettering into an actual font? Good news! There is a really cool tool for that:
Fontself
Fontself Maker
An add-on to create fonts in Illustrator or Photoshop (Mac & PC)
$49 (One-time purchase with free updates)
Disclaimer: We're part of Fontself ;)
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