Impelled by a need to support emoji characters, Mozilla, Adobe, Microsoft, and Google are working to standardize technology for showing fonts that aren't just black and white. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Adobe Illustrator is an industry standard for creating graphics — but creating fonts with multiple colors still requires going in and manually adjusting each letter ...

M is for Marcus: this detail from an illuminated manuscript in the British Library shows what's possible with chromatic fonts. (Credit: British Library) For a few decades now, fonts have been ...