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Re: COLRv1 to gray/alpha question (& color-blindness question)


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: COLRv1 to gray/alpha question (& color-blindness question)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 05:05:31 +0000 (UTC)

> If we are talking about text fonts, using colour fonts to annotate
> Arabic for proper pronunciation of passages from the Quran... is it
> possible to intentionally create a font that would cause colour
> blind non-native people to mis-pronounce certain words and create
> offences / blasphemy? :-).

Indeed, this might be an issue, since Unicode contains 'honorific word
ligatures' for Arabic...

Note that you don't necessarily need colours to create ambiguities, as
the attached image shows :-)


    Werner

JPEG image


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