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 ...

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

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 ...