adobe-type-tools/opentype-svg

question: how to make color variable fonts

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Hi
thank you for this great tool, it's amazing!
i'm an amateur font designer recently working on color fonts, i need to know how can i use opentype-svg along with fontmake to create a color variable font, fontmake input formats for variable font masters are UFO(with designspace file) and glyphs so i can't use otf(i tried to convert but didn't work).

Thanks Amin.

The SVG table does not support variations, so at this time it's not possible to make variable OpenType-SVG fonts.

You can, however, make variable color fonts if you use the format that leverages the COLR and CPAL tables. The tools in this repo won't help you with that.

I suggest you get in touch with Roel Nieskens (@RoelN). He's a font wizard and has been stress-testing color font technology for years.