[lca2018-chat] Font used to render badge?

[Hannah Thompson]

Shame, turns out the pride flag emoji kind of loses it's impact when it's
printed in greyscale. Better bring the coloured pencils.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 9:36 AM James Polley <jamezpolley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Daniel Sobey <dns at dns.id.au> wrote:
>
>> Hello List,
>>
>> Just wondering what font will be used to render the conference badges.
>> I can see in the preview that that some emoji do work but when I try and
>> enter the flag for Australia it does not render.
>>
>> Are you planning on supporting emoji, font awesome, material icons on
>> badges?
>> If so what font should we use to preview the badges.
>>
>
> Just to follow up on this - the badge preview now defaults to showing you
> a PNG, so that it’s as close as I can make it to how the real badge will
> look, without being dependent on fonts on your machine.
>
> The font for emoji is currently TwemojI v2.4, as rendered into a .ttf via
> the tooling at https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font. However, as
> that page notes, the font “will currently only show color emoji in Firefox,
> Thunderbird, Photoshop CC 2017, and Windows Edge V38.14393+”. As our
> badge-rendering/print pipeline doesn’t involve any of those, they’re coming
> out black-and-white (and would be even if we were printing in colour, as
> far as I can tell)
>
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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