Support for CFF Fonts

posted 2005-05-23

A new Avalon / Indigo CTP was released today. One of the new features in this release is support for CFF fonts (something brought up in a previous entry's comments).

This means Avalon applications can use the OpenType features set with many more fonts. To demonstrate, here's a screenshot of the excellent Bickham Script Pro drawn with a gradient fill using Avalon:

The words 'Bickham Script Pro' written in the Bickham Script Pro font

Here's a snippet of the markup used for the screenshot (I'll explain how it works in the next post):

<TextBlock FontSize="60" FontFamily="Bickham Script Pro" Foreground="VerticalGradient #f00 #00f">
  <Inline Typography.StylisticAlternates="1">B</Inline>ickham Script Pro
</TextBlock>