Open Bug 637421 Opened 14 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Multi colour fonts (for the visually impaired)

Categories

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: dfhyuilkiolioup, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13 Build Identifier: The idea has a very serious purpose, its not just for coolness. It's intended to be used very seriously by partially sighted people, to help them read, by helping them distinguish the letters. In practice: The fonts should be able to render high quality images, of important size, as well as normal sized fonts. Some peoples vision is so bad, they have to zoom the letters to almost the hight of the screen and stick there head just in front of it. It would be nice if they were capable to also use animations (like gif). Images as vector graphics, as well as raster images. Simpler alternative: Because, it might take some time, before this is implemented. A simpler interim solution can be done. To ad the capability to set colours for individual fonts and there individual background. Example, all "a" are red with blue background, all "b" are green with brown background, etc... Combined with custom fonts, we can then hack a two colour solution. Links: **** demonstration greasemonkey scrip http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96470 KDE brainstorming http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea93881_page1 Mozilla wiki https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Accessibility#Multi_colour_fonts_.28serious_purpose.2C_not_just_coolness.29 Reproducible: Always
One of few use cases for SVG fonts?
SVG fonts? More info on those? They support colours? They are implemented? They don't change the fact, that i can't replace all "a"s with a space pig or something, by simply assigning new fonts in the "preferences".
Michel, SVG fonts are not implemented in Gecko, but if I understand correctly they _should_ be able to do what you want (in the sense that you can use arbitrary SVG as the glyphs in the font).
No browser has support for colored glyphs in SVG fonts, currently.
Yea, i informed my self. Apparently, its not implemented anywhere. Not at the required level anyway. dear god, what IS that!!! http://www.svgopen.org/2009/papers/3-Lights_Camera_Action/#d4e107 8P So the feature enhancement becomes about implementing enough of SVG fonts to make this use possible. Just implementing the strict minimum would be nice too. At least one different colour per letter (and background?).
Severity: normal → S3
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