Google emoji fonts

[Peter Oliver]

I was looking around for a font in Fedora that could display emoji.

Symbola has good coverage but the images aren't the easiest to see at typical text
sizes.

I found a couple of Android-related fonts that seem to fit the bill, namely Noto Color
Emoji and Android Emoji, but neither are packaged for Fedora yet.

Noto Color Emoji appears in the Android source (e.g.,
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/noto-fonts/+/kitkat-re...)
but not in the upstream Noto at https://code.google.com/p/noto/ (although I guess it will
show up at some point in the future).  As I understand it this is some kind of new-fangled
colour font; it works on Fedora 20 (albeit in greyscale) but not on Fedora 19.  It uses
bitmaps, so appears fuzzy at large sizes.

Older versions of Android include Android Emoji, which more recently appears to have been
obsoleted by the afore-mentioned Noto Color Emoji (see
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base.git/+log/master...).
 However, this is a scalable font, so I wonder if there would be some value in packaging
it anyway?

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Peter Oliver

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:29:47PM +0000, Peter Oliver wrote:
>  I was looking around for a font in Fedora that could display emoji.
There's also https://github.com/Genshin/PhantomOpenEmoji, which is a set of
SVG images. This was made into a TTF font:
http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.ttf

More at http://www.w3.org/2013/10/SVG_in_OpenType/

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Matthew Miller           mattdm(a)mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Hi,

The vector version is probably more generally useful, most apps would not
know what to do with the other one today (and printing would be a mess).
Though I suppose both could be packaged.

Since it's Google new versions are bound to appear in unexpected places
with no announcement nor clear version history. If someone packages those
tracking the files is going to be most of the maintenance work.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

[Peter Oliver]

On Sat, 4 Jan 2014, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

>  The vector version is probably more generally useful, most apps would
> not
>  know what to do with the other one today (and printing would be a mess).
>  Though I suppose both could be packaged. 
I've gone ahead and packaged the vector font, Android Emoji.  This is my first font
package.  The review request is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049076, if
anyone wants to pick it up.

Thanks.

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Peter Oliver

[Peter Oliver]

Android Emoji is now packaged as google-android-emoji-fonts and is available in
updates-testing (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/google-android-emoji-fonts).

-- 
Peter Oliver

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-01-04 08:29 PM, Peter Oliver wrote:
>  I was looking around for a font in Fedora that could display emoji.
>  
>  Symbola has good coverage but the images aren't the easiest to see at typical
>  text sizes.
>  
>  I found a couple of Android-related fonts that seem to fit the bill, namely
>  Noto Color Emoji and Android Emoji, but neither are packaged for Fedora yet.
>  
>  Noto Color Emoji appears in the Android source (e.g.,
>
> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/noto-fonts/+/kitkat-re...)
>  but not in the upstream Noto at https://code.google.com/p/noto/ (although I
>  guess it will show up at some point in the future). 
I built that font.  Will move it to upstream Noto soonish...


>   As I understand it this
>  is some kind of new-fangled colour font; it works on Fedora 20 (albeit in
>  greyscale) but not on Fedora 19.  It uses bitmaps, so appears fuzzy at large
>  sizes. 
Yes, we designed and implemented it:


http://google-opensource.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/open-standard-color-font...

I also have a proof-of-concept patch to cairo that would make the color work,
but it's not ready for upstream and no other cairo hacker showed interest in
finishing it.  I may check that out again.


On 14-01-05 02:24 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:> On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at
12:29:47PM +0000, Peter Oliver wrote:
> > I was looking around for a font in Fedora that could display
> emoji.
>
>  There's also https://github.com/Genshin/PhantomOpenEmoji, which is a set of
>  SVG images. This was made into a TTF font:
>  http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/opentype-svg/GeckoEmoji.ttf
>
>  More at http://www.w3.org/2013/10/SVG_in_OpenType/ 
That version wouldn't work.  The SVG proposal is not implemented in FreeType.
 That's part of my things to do, but has not been high priority.

That said, I've also built a bitmap version of the Phantom set that is
available here:

  https://code.google.com/p/color-emoji/


On 14-01-05 04:20 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:> Hi,
>  The vector version is probably more generally useful, most apps would not
>  know what to do with the other one today (and printing would be a mess).
>  Though I suppose both could be packaged. 
I fixed cairo and fontconfig to automatically scale the bitmaps, so to most
apps they are just like other fonts.


-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 10:09:37AM +0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>  That said, I've also built a bitmap version of the Phantom set
> that is
>  available here:
>    https://code.google.com/p/color-emoji/ 
Cool -- thanks!

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Matthew Miller           mattdm(a)mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>