ISWA web font

[Jonathan Duncan]

Hi Steve,

On 9/3/2014 11:21 AM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> A promising emerging technology is being developed called "SVG glyphs 
> for OpenType fonts".  This will include colored and/or animated glyphs 
> in OpenType fonts.
> http://www.w3.org/community/svgopentype/
     It project seems to be at proposal stage since November 2013.
     It was supposed to be discussed in January 2014 but haven't found 
anything more about it 
(http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2013OctDec/0020.html)

     The only two examples I found only work in FireFox not in Chrome
     https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.html
     https://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/soccer.html

So this might still be a technology of the future.

On the page there is a link to 
http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/ and 
http://manufacturaindependente.com/colorfont/workshop-lgm2012.html which 
might be quite useful for us too and works in other browsers beside 
FireFox.  We would need to implement a colorfont to work with the 
javascript.

> In theory, we can load the ISWA 2010 symbols as a 2-color font using 
> the above specification.  The resulting font file will not handle the 
> 2-dimensional placement, but it will be able to be installed on the 
> client side.  The resulting font would support the entire symbol set 
> of the ISWA 2010.
My previous post about web fonts, is similar but I had thought of doing 
the two color overlaying in CSS in a style sheet instead of the in the font.
>
> In theory, we could load the current symbol SVGs into a font that 
> would support the Unicode specification being published next year. The 
> resulting file would be 2 to 6 MB.
>
> If this worked, it would be a viable alternative to an image server 
> for SignWriting.  The 2-dimensional placement of symbols would be 
> handled with HTML and CSS on the client side.
That would be great!
Regards,
     Jonathan
>
> In particular, the Incubator project would need to be rewritten to 
> position the individual symbols rather than request a completed sign, 
> but it would save a lot of bandwidth because we wouldn't need to 
> download the SVGs for each new signs.
>
> Regards,
> -Steve
>
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