Multi colour fonts (for the visually impaired)
Submitted by dfh..@..il.com
Link to original bug (#643525)
Description
The idea has a very serious purpose, its not just for coolness.
It's intended to be used very seriously by partially sighted people, to help them read, by helping them distinguish the letters.
In practice:
The fonts should be able to render high quality images, of important size, as well as normal sized fonts. Some peoples vision is so bad, they have to zoom the letters to almost the hight of the screen and stick there head just in front of it.
It would be nice if they were capable to also use animations (like gif).
Images as vector graphics, as well as raster images.
Simpler alternative:
Because, it might take some time, before this is implemented. A simpler interim solution can be done. To ad the capability to set colours for individual fonts and there individual background. Example, all "a" are red with blue background, all "b" are green with brown background, etc... Combined with custom fonts, we can then hack a two colour solution.
Links:
half arsed demonstration greasemonkey scrip http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96470
KDE brainstorming http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea93881_page1
Mozilla proposal https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637421