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Date: Sun 11-Jan-1989 21:19:00 From: Unknown Subject: Multi-color fonts 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. >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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