Is it possible to patch fully colored svg images into a nerd font?

[ziontee113]

Hi, I wonder if it's possible patch a fully colored svg image into a nerd font to use in the terminal :)

My friend just tried and 1 image translated into 8 glyphs... Is this possible at all? Thank you :)

[Finii]

I have not much knowledge about color glyphs.

On my machine I have only one font with color glyphs, and that can not be opened by fontforge. mate-font-viewer does open it, though, and it is usable in writer. showttf and ttfdump show details. I doubt that any terminal emulator would be able to use it.

As we patch with fontforge I guess it is not possible. Maybe ask there if it is possible (and how) to even OPEN it.

Usually colors in terminals are not in the font but programmed in the shell via ANSI escape sequences on a per-glyph basis. But of course you know that and want a multicolored glyph.

Later:

Ah, this is the fontforge issue: fontforge/fontforge#677
So the anser is 'not with fontforge and therefore not with font-patcher'.

[ziontee113]

Thank you very much :)

[ChiefMikeK]

FontForge can work with svg color layers
the problem though is the different specs file formats between windoz mac google android firefox/Mozzilla...
Termux displays andriod's emoji in color just fine. others display hit or miss black/white

https://fontforge.org/docs/ui/dialogs/multilayer.html

[Finii]

Just found this (by chance), do not know what it is worth, for investigation later.

https://glyphsapp.com/learn/creating-an-svg-color-font