alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) (01/12/89)
I just created a multi-color font. I am posting this to comp.sys.amiga because it was done on the Amiga. I am posting this to comp.sys.next because I remember a previous discussion about multi-color fonts in this group, and since the reason for the font is different than those discussed. I am working on an application where I have made extremely heavy use of shading in all of the graphics - control buttons, icons, etc. This gives a consistent 3-D effect with the lighting appearing to come from the upper right. I have 5 grays, 3 greens, 3 browns, etc - in fact, I found the number of colors available on the Amiga to be a significant restriction. When we were basically done with the product, we had a little time left over to play around. (Yes - a unique situation!) I decided that the 'dullest' part of the user interface was now the font! The single color font looked incredibly 'flat' with all of the '3-D' graphics surrounding it. In order to make the text look like it fit, I created a 4-color font which has shading consistent with the rest of our graphics. (Yes, the Amiga does not support multi-color fonts, I actually made 3 fonts and overlaid them, each in a different color.) A sample example of an 'a' might look like: ******** %:::::::%* :%* ******%%* %%%:::::%* :%* :%* :%*****%%* ::::::::* where : is the darkest color, % is the medium color, and * is the bright color.
papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (01/12/89)
In article <1959@cpoint.UUCP> alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells) writes: |I just created a multi-color font. I am posting this to comp.sys.amiga |because it was done on the Amiga. I am posting this to comp.sys.next |because I remember a previous discussion about multi-color fonts in this |group, and since the reason for the font is different than those discussed. .... |In order to make the text look like it fit, I created a 4-color font which |has shading consistent with the rest of our graphics. (Yes, the Amiga does ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |not support multi-color fonts, I actually made 3 fonts and overlaid them, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |each in a different color.) You must be kidding. Products that support multi-color fonts have been available on the Amiga for over a year. The specification was published quite a while ago, even in magazines such as Amazing Computing (I recall John Foust wrote that one). The spec are "backward" compatible with the original 1 color fonts, so that old programs will still be able to use one plane of the colorfont. "Read more about it", then speak. -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=