What version of Photoshop or Illustrator does this require?
The Fontself extensions require a copy of Adobe’s creative apps above (and including) version CS6 - so all CC versions up to CC 2015 are supported (they will NOT WORK with CS5, CS4, CS3… :(
Color fonts. How do they work?
Traditional font technologies are based on vector shapes, which scale great when you enlarge them, but do not contain any color information. However, over the past few years, larger companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla or Adobe started designing and implementing different color font formats to fit each others needs. Besides several independent attempts to bring color fonts to the market (including with bitmap font formats by Fontlab and even Fontself), they didn’t appear until emojis took over the world: as web, desktop and mobile apps started to implement these colorful images as a very expressive way to communicate, all the key players decided to implement their own technology to support color fonts (along other advanced font features).
Today, while most have been standardized under the OpenType umbrella, support for color fonts is still depending on each operating system and on a per-software basis, so we still need to export fonts with several color formats to match the targeted platform.
Hopefully, as more creatives start making and using color fonts, all the key players will see sufficient demand from the market to implement a universal solution…
Where can I use the fonts exported with the Fontself extensions?
All the vector fonts exported from Illustrator will work EVERYWHERE you can install other fonts. On any Mac, PC, or mobile device.
Regarding the color bitmap fonts exported from Photoshop, you will be able to use them in MOST OSX, iOS and Android apps… EXCEPT Adobe’s own apps.
Wait, what? Yes, both Photoshop & Illustrator do NOT YET support the display of color fonts, BUT WILL PROBABLY DO SO sooner than later (we are in touch with the folks at Adobe, as we share common goals). The short story is that they use a custom text rendering technology, whereas other apps rely on Apple’s, Microsoft’s & Google’s own technologies, which already support color fonts.
On a Mac (OSX 10.7+), you can use your fonts in Apple’s own apps (Pages, Keynote, TextEdit, XCode, etc.), embed them in PDFs, and in many other creatives apps (like Sketch or Pixelmator).
On a PC (Windows 8.1+), we plan to support its native color vector fonts format in a future release (or in one of our next Stretch Goals =)
On the Web, Firefox (26+) already supports color font formats from both Adobe/Mozilla and Microsoft.
As the project matures, we will release and update a more comprehensive list of all the software that support different font formats and features.
This easy creation process sounds so obvious, why didn’t anyone make it before?
Honestly, I don’t know. I guess that it is probably due to the fact that typography is a really complex matter, and trying to simplify sophisticated things comes at a cost. The Fontself extensions do not aim to replace any of the existing font creation tools and processes, but to open this wonderful space to new creatives, who might have felt a bit intimidated at first by existing solutions.
Don’t expect Fontself to become a complex software. It will keep providing the most accessible yet comprehensive set of features, without compromising with the core belief than creative tools should be fun and easy to use.
My goal with Fontself is to simplify many creative processes so that anyone could really start designing and using fonts that really match their intentions, their emotions. This means there are a lot more things we need to streamline, and I hope this project will inspire others to build even more user-friendly creative tools.
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