Color typefaces provide an evolutionary step for digital typography. Most of the typefaces that we are familiar with do not store color information, they include vector shapes that are by default presented as black text. To add color, you need to do it manually. On the other hand, color fonts, also known as chromatic fonts or multicolor fonts contain color information in addition to shape information.
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Free Color Fonts technology has allowed designers to add rich graphic aspects like color, gradients, and textures into a font file.
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Typefaces for headlines, titles, numerals, brief paragraphs, and posters that have a marshmallow-like appearance. Creme and fluffy airbags served as inspiration. Adobe Illustrator file free mockup is available in a variety of color schemes.
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An open-source emoji typeface developed by Adobe is called EmojiOne Color. Adobe Type’s colour typefaces are described in depth in their Typekit. You can get Adobe’s Trajan Color Concept typeface on Typekit as well.
Abelone
Abelone’s broad letters and smooth merging blue and purple gradients are inspired by the iridescent abalone shell of a sea snail. Abelone, designed by Maria Grnlund, was made available for free by Adobe and Fontself in October 2017 as part of #ColorFontWeek. There is still a link to download the font for free, and it is licensed for both personal and commercial usage.
ColorTube Font
Designed by Ivan Filipov, ColorTube is a multi-colored rounded typeface. The typeface features various additional glyphs in addition to the standard Latin characters. Under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, ColorTube OpenType colour typeface is free to download.
BIXA COLOR
Since colour typefaces typically have large download sizes, employing them on websites can be problematic. Roel Nieskens kept this in mind while creating Bixa Color, a chromatic wood type free font for Novo Typo, and the result was a decent 50kB WOFF font file. Bixa Color is available in the.otf,.woff, and.woff2 font formats. Colors may be selected before you download the game, and each character is made up of three hues.
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Blockino
Blockino, a typeface by Fonts, is a blocky, bright font inspired by mid-century graphics. A type foundry that specializes in generating high-quality OpenType-SVG colour fonts. It is only possible to use Blockino in uppercase, with the lowercase characters serving as uppercase alternatives. Use Blockino in headlines, quotes and abstract patterns! Before downloading, you can select one of eight pre-made color schemes. Creative Market sells the font’s commercial usage license.
Playbox
Adobe and Fontself launched Matt Lyon’s Playbox as part of #ColorFontWeek. Playbox has a whimsical and playful sense because of the variety of colours, letter forms, and other patterns that make up each character. The typeface may be downloaded for free and is licenced for commercial usage.
ColorTube Font
ColorTube is a multicolored rounded typeface designed by Ivan Filipov that is both vivid and playful. The typeface offers a basic Latin character set as well as several additional glyphs for added variety. ColorTube OpenType color typeface is available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Conclusion
We have discussed about Free Color Fonts in this post. With color fonts, digital typography takes a giant leap forward. If you’ve ever seen a black and white font, you’ve probably seen a typeface that doesn’t hold color information. Manual color addition is required. When it comes to typefaces, there are two types: those that just provide shape information and those that include both shape and color information.