From: "saqqara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This is one example where colour support in fonts would be useful. A useful > addition to the OpenType specifications if any readers here have influence > on such matters. > > Something I have a vested interest in with my own focus on Ancient Egyptian > Hieroglyphs.
No need for that; markup can be made to allow selecting primary or secondary colors, and fonts don't need to encode color directly, but instead a set of related glyphs with their indexed color information; it's up to the styling renderer to allow specifying these colors, or give them some defaults. In classic text renderers we specify only 1 color, which apply to the whole glyph, but a font could specify the behavior of this color style face to internal color indexes (for example, a unique "black" color could be transformed by a renderer as a shade of black computed with help of the font's color information; classic fonts don't have this information and do not map a style color to an effective glyph color with a transformation function, but this is a possible extension of font formats).
