Making a font for the Jamaican flag alphabet

Previously on this blog: Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals.As the title implies, I have been baited into creating another cursed font. Check out the demo here: Jamaican Alphabet Font. This one extends the Jamaican flag: This flag has a certain “X”-factor. Into the full alphabet, as a usable font: This font is based on the design from this Reddit post from u/VelvetOnion. But the approach is rather different from my previous Cistercian font project. Instead of (ab)using ligatures, this one is more of a traditional font implementation. How is font/typeface design supposed to work? I have no idea how it’s supposed to go… but I will tell you about what I did.Drawing shapes with colors. In a font!Of course font files contain the shapes of each letter - that’s obvious. But did you know they can also contain colors with COLR/CPAL? I picked the colors and aspect ratio of the real flag, twice as wide as it is tall, and got to drawing (in code):…

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