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Other Chromatic Typefaces like History

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I'm interested in layered fonts like History (Typotheque), I've looked on Myfonts with the chromatic tag and they all look very similar, even the H&FJ one isn't that interesting...

edit: Just found Funcity

Here’s one I developed for The Globe and Mail:


This was set by typing PpEeXx.
The majuscule characters provide the outline of the glyph, the minuscule the body; each character is half the width of the composite glyph.
The advantage of this method is that there are no layers with the resulting issue of selection and registration, and one may adjust colors in the color palette without selecting any of the text.
The disadvantage is that it only works for one case of letters.

It would work with normal text if “one to many” substitutions were implemented in OpenType.

Ironic indeed that Rosewood Fill got more usage than the two-tone version.

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