EmojiOne Color SVGinOT Font

A color and B&W emoji SVGinOT font built from EmojiOne artwork with support for ZWJ, skin tone diversity and country flags.

The font works in all operating systems, but will currently only show color emoji in Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla Gecko-based applications. This is not a limitation of the font, but of the operating systems and applications. Regular B&W outline emoji are included for backwards/fallback compatibility.

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Table of Contents

• Examples
• What is SVGinOT?
• Install on Linux
• Install on OS X
• Install on Windows
• Building
• License

Examples

Before: Firefox in Ubuntu Linux.

After: Firefox in all three operating systems, plus fall back outline characters in the other browsers.

See before and after on your machine:

• http://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html

What is SVGinOT?

SVG in Open Type is a standard by Adobe and Mozilla for color OpenType and Open Font Format fonts. It allows font creators to embed complete SVG files within a font enabling full color and even animations. There are more details in the SVGinOT proposal and the OpenType SVG table specifications.

SVGinOT Font demos (Firefox only):

• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/svg-colors-in-opentype-fonts/
• http://xerographer.github.io/reinebow/
• http://xerographer.github.io/multicoloure/

Install on Linux

The font can be installed for a user or system-wide. Get the latest version from releases: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases

Note: This requires Bitstream Vera is installed and will change your systems default serif, sans-serif and monospace fonts.

Why Bitstream Vera

The default serif, sans-serif and monospace font for most Linux distributions is DejaVu. DejaVu includes a wide range of symbols which override the EmojiOne Color characters. The previous solution was to make EmojiOne Color the default system font, but that causes a number of issues. A better solution is a different font that doesn't override any emoji characters such as Bitstream Vera. Bitstream Vera is the source of the glyphs used in DejaVu, so it's not very different. 99%+ of people will not notice the difference.

Additional default font options

The Noto and Roboto font families conflict far less than DejaVu. You may want to try them. Primary issues are the 0x2639 and 0x263a characters.

Known issues

• Symbols/emoji in monospace formatted text cause incorrect character alignment. The whitespace character widths from the most recently selected fallback font are used in Pango/GTK applications.
• [Issue #31] Some font families are not matched correctly in Linux Firefox. Workaround: Open about:config set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled to false. Note: May cause crashes in Firefox <48.

Manual install on any Linux

Install for the current user without root:

# 1. Download the latest version
wget https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases/download/v1.3/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-Linux-1.3.tar.gz
# 2. Uncompress the file
tar zxf EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-Linux-1.3.tar.gz
# 3. Run the installer
cd EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-Linux-1.3
./install.sh

Install on Ubuntu Linux

Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~eosrei/+archive/ubuntu/fonts

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:eosrei/fonts
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fonts-emojione-svginot

Useful: [Emojione Picker for Ubuntu][13] [13]: https://github.com/gentakojima/emojione-picker-ubuntu

Install on Arch Linux

AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emojione-color-font/

yaourt -S emojione-color-font

Install on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo repository: https://github.com/jorgicio/jorgicio-gentoo

# Install layman using Portage with USE="git" enabled, the default.
emerge layman
# Add the repo.
layman -s jorgicio
# Install the package.
emerge emojione-color-font

Install on OS X

There are three install options for OS X. Both SVGinOT versions are available from releases: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases

1. EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-1.3.zip - The regular version of the font installs like any other font and can be specifically selected, but OS X will default to the Apple Color Emoji font for emojis.
2. EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-OSX-1.3.zip - A hack to replace the Apple Color Emoji font by using the same internal name. Install and accept the warning in Font Book.
3. emojione-apple.ttf - A SBIX bitmap Apple-format EmojiOne color font is available in the emojione project.

Reiterating: Only FireFox supports the SVGinOT color emoji for now. Safari and Chrome will use the fallback black and white emoji.

Install on Windows

There are two install options for Windows. Both SVGinOT versions are available from releases: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases

Standard install

The regular version of the font installs like any other font and can be specifically selected, but Windows will default to the Segoe UI Emoji font for emoji characters. Download: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases/download/v1.3/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-1.3.zip

Replace the default Windows emoji fonts

Windows 7, 8, 10 use emoji from both Segoe UI Symbol and Segoe UI Emoji. We need to replace both fonts, but keep the existing symbol characters from Segoe UI Symbol.

This package contains an install script that will generate both fonts (or in Windows 7, just Segoe UI Symbol) and install them for you. Running the install script requires both Python and pip in the PATH.

1. Download the most recent Python 3 for Windows: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
2. Start the installer, select "Add Python 3.5 to PATH" and finish the install process.
3. Download EmojiOne Color Windows package from releases: https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font/releases/download/v1.3/EmojiOneColor-SVGinOT-1.3-Win.zip
4. Uncompress the file.
5. Open the new EmojiOneColor directory.
6. Run install.cmd. Note: This will take some time.
7. Install both new fonts when requested.
8. Done!

Reiterating: Only FireFox supports the SVGinOT color emoji for now. IE and Chrome will use the fallback black and white emoji.

Building

Overview:

1. B&W SVGs are generated on-the-fly from the color SVGs
2. The B&W SVGs are imported based on their filename to create either regular glyphs or ligature glyphs.
3. The color SVGs are imported to override both types of glyphs.

Requires:

• Inkscape
• Imagemagick
• potrace/mkbitmap
• FontTools 3.0+
• FontForge 20160405+
• SVGO
• make
• SCFBuild (Created for this project!)

Setup and build on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fontforge/fontforge
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape potrace npm nodejs nodejs-legacy fontforge \
python-fontforge python-pip imagemagick git make
sudo npm install -g svgo
sudo pip install fonttools
git clone https://github.com/eosrei/emojione-color-font.git
cd emojione-color-font
git clone https://github.com/eosrei/scfbuild.git SCFBuild
make -j 4

License

The artwork and TTF fonts are licensed CC-BY-4.0. Please see LICENSE.md for details.