Roel NieskensHey Ollie, I was looking into https://github.com/Wakamai-Fondue/wakamai-fondue-site/issues/147 finally! I have trouble finding a font which has named palettes or colors. Do you know of any? Your code example is probably not from an existing font, at least not one I could find?
Jesse R Ewing@pixelambacht My color font Broaduro has several defined color palettes.
@jesserewing Just to be sure, named palettes? The version on https://midwesttype.com/family/broaduro/ seems to be a v0 font, without any named palettes?
@pixelambacht Hmm. Well they’re supposed to be named! Type Founders did the engineering so maybe I’m not fully understanding how the font was set up. Here’s a screenshot of the palettes available.
@jesserewing It's such a new and relatively obscure feature I'm sure it makes more sense to do a "one palette per font" release, so people can swap out fonts to get a new palette. Once in the browser, you can apply any palette with custom colors anyway!
@pixelambacht It’s a very interesting technology but as a practicing designer I can’t find a use case for myself. Maybe for a website. Otherwise I would still prefer layered fonts where I retain more control. Related gripe: it’s very difficult to find information on color fonts in a search engine!
@jesserewing In an ideal world, you'd have proper ways to select and override colors without needing to manually overlap layers. But CPAL support is low on many programmer's TODO list!
@pixelambacht Yes, that would be useful!
@pixelambacht Although, if a layer font is aligned properly, layers aren’t necessary. Just a line for each style/color and then set leading to zero and boom. But it feels hacky.