![]() Of even more significance is the fact that the glyphs included in the font are Unicode encoded. Although the technology is basic, with color bitmaps included at two sizes in a proprietary “sbix” table, in years to come, as color fonts gain traction, we’ll look back to 2011 as the year it all began. However, Mac OS X Lion and the inclusion of the Apple Color Emoji font represent the first time a modern operating system has included both support and a showcase color font. In digital typography layering has long been used to achieve multicolor results and color bitmap fonts have been around a while. ![]() ![]() Of course color fonts are nothing new, with overprinting techniques in use from the earliest days of movable metal type. ![]() Apple Color Emoji represents a significant milestone in both the history of type technology and character standardization. ![]()
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