I’m a big fan of emojis, especially colored ones. At Microsoft BUILD 2013, the Windows graphics rendering team announced that Microsoft is proposing a practical and efficient addition to the OpenType font standard for multi-colored fonts support which they’ve implemented as a preview in Windows 8.1. Existing multi-colored font alternatives use rendering font replacements or embedded bitmaps which
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