On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:28:14 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> I even hope that there will be a setting in all browsers, OS'es, > mobiles, and apps to refuse any colorful rendering, and just render > them as monochromatic symbols. In summary, COMPLETETY DISABLE the > colorful extensions of OpenType made for them. But hieroglyphs look so much better in colour! What's more, they were meant to be read in colour. If you want monochrome, you should make do with hieratic! On a more practical level, I've made a font that colours subscript coda consonants differently to subscript onset consonants for the purpose of proof-reading Northern Thai text. It was a pleasant surprise to see colour-coded suggested spelling corrections when I used it on Firefox. I had installed the spell-checker for LibreOffice, which currently lacks the colour capability, but Firefox helped itself to it. So you may not like emoji, but the colour extensions have perfectly good uses. Richard.
