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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE

LUC DEVROYE

ABOUT

Typopixo

Typopixo is a boutique type foundry specialized in multi-color webfonts, possibly run [my guess] by Mark van Wageningen. It was launched in January 2014. Based in Amsterdam, Typopixo collaborates with skilled typedesigners, lettering artists, Javascript developers and HTML experts. The site accepts submissions. Techncally, to use their fonts, one needs to do four things: include a JQuery javascript file (in the web page), include the Typopixo library, include the font PNG file (purchased from them), and include the font .js file (comes with the purchase). From that point on, the fonts work precisely as normal fonts. At launch time, these were the designers:

• Barbara Bigosinska: Wilda.
• Rianne Hulshof: Gluon.
• Hubert Jocham: Neoparts.
• Novo Typo: Fall, Guru, Lily, Pure, Zita, Lola
• Diana Ovezea: Flipster
• Daniel Pelavin: Forgia
• Giuseppe Salerno: Pink Fraktur, Afrobeat
• Kim Slagter: Hi Honey
• Teja Smrekar: Klobasa

My initial reaction is disappointment---I thought that color fonts were going to be real fonts that incorporate fancy code in opentype or truetype font tables, with freedom to access all colors in the color cube. But these are just images with colors chosen by the designers and image sizes set to two choices. It is a valid effort, but the ultimate step has to be full inclusion in a standard font format, fully scalable and color-controllable.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Typopixo
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
Google search

INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Multicolor typefaces ⦿ Dutch type design ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Hipster fonts ⦿