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Finally, FontLab itself is a full-fledged color vector editing environment. You can draw or import vector elements, then fill and stroke them with plain colors or shimmering gradients (figure 4). Once you’ve put together your favorite kaleidoscope of glyphs, you need to export the font into the right format. One and the same monochrome OpenType font works everywhere — not so with color OpenType. With FontLab 8, you can export your colorful font project into all relevant color OpenType formats (or “flavors”): OpenType+COLR, +SVG, +sbix and +CBDT. You’ll get more than one font, and most likely, only one or two of these will work in a specific app or system. Remember when videos on the Mac had to be MOV or MP4, but on Windows, they needed to be WMV or ASF? Today, color OpenType is a bit like that. For example, modern Adobe apps will work fine with the OpenType+SVG flavor. Apple devices will display +SVG and +sbix. Google Chrome and Android will show +COLR and +CBDT. Windows will render +COLR and +sbix. We’re not quite at the “one font to rule them all” stage yet, but don’t despair! With FontLab, you can even export all glyphs as individual SVG, PDF, or PNG artwork assets, and use them in apps or systems that haven’t yet been updated to handle any color OpenType. Embark on this adventure with FontLab 8! Redefine the boundaries of typography, one colorful glyph at a time, and transform the black-and-white typographic rhythm into an eclectic celebration of you