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Episode 194: Subtext
Android Developers Backstage
Is Color V1 a Variable Font?
Color V1 is also it's also another kind of evolution of the font technology from the 90s. And color V1 basically, the big addition here is it has gradients. We need this for emoji. So now we can go ahead and represent that using kind of a vector that actually allows it to raster at any size. It seems like instead of taking the approach historically of shoveling all of our text capabilities and APIs into the graphics API, what we're doing is embedding all of the graphics rendering inside of our fonts.
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