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Bug 643525 - Multi colour fonts (for the visually impaired)
Multi colour fonts (for the visually impaired)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-28 20:59 UTC by dfhyuilkiolioup
Modified: 2018-05-22 12:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description dfhyuilkiolioup 2011-02-28 20:59:20 UTC
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:

half arsed demonstration greasemonkey scrip
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96470

KDE brainstorming
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea93881_page1

Mozilla proposal 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637421

Mozilla wiki
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Accessibility#Multi_colour_fonts_.28serious_purpose.2C_not_just_coolness.29
Comment 1 dfhyuilkiolioup 2011-02-28 23:25:25 UTC
Technically: Implement part of SVG fonts, to make this work
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 12:58:13 UTC
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