Compyx: creating a multicolor 8‑bit font for browsers

Once again, another fantastic idea that sources its idea from the demoscene, one of the two great alternative software movements (the other being the opensource movement).

It would be interesting to know if this transformative use of the multicolor charsets counts as copyright infringement. I know "normal" (vector) fonts are not protected by copyright because they don't cross the threshold of originality, but I personally wouldn't lump the examples in the article into the same category.

In any case it is really interesting to see how much creativity was put into the distribution of warez…

Windows phone 8.1 also seem to have COLR/CPAL support.

... now I want all the fonts from classic '90s videogames. Doom font! Tyrian font! Oh my God we're going to get so sick of all of those.

This is a really cool thing, and I like the idea of multicolored fonts.

Something to note is this crashed Firefox for Android.

I found replacing letters with images to be very compatible with even the oldest browsers.

http://abc.go-here.nl/

Could somebody please explain why people are going to all this trouble to do weird things with fonts? Why not just use an image instead?

Nice, although I'd guess the biggest application will be in icon fonts, and not those meant for text.

Seems to work for Chrome on the Mac, too.

This is really cool.