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Frank Puffer

Sorry if I am asking stupid questions. I understand that in a color font, each character has fixed colors. But in one of your sample pictures displaying the text "the quick brown fox...", the same letters appear with different colorings. This is what I don't understand.

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Wei Gao

Oops sorry. Let me try to understand your question more precisely -- are you referring to the 'o' stroke, for example, it appears in 'b', 'd', and 'q', as well as 'o' itself?

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Frank Puffer

The 'o' in 'brown' is yellow, the one in 'fox' is green and the ones in 'over' and 'dog' are red. That's what puzzles me.

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Wei Gao

I see. In fact, all the letter 'o's are yellow. The stroke 'o' in other letters such as 'd', 'p', 'q', 'g' have different colors -- this I believe is designers' decisions. Unless you are seeing otherwise?

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Frank Puffer

Hi, it's me again :) - no, my issue is not the o-shaped strokes in different letters. Please check the letters 'o' in the words 'brown', 'fox', 'over' and 'dog' in the 3rd image of your article. At least on my screen they have completely different colors!

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Frank Puffer

Hi, it's me again :) - no, my issue is not the o-shaped strokes in different letters. Please check the letters 'o' in the words 'brown', 'fox', 'over' and 'dog' in the 3rd image of your article. At least on my screen they have completely different colors!

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Wei Gao

Hmm I see. Sorry I was missing your point 😅

Actually, that image is from typewithpride's website banner. They probably put a different version or one that is not exactly the same with what they release with the font files.

For the actual glyph you will see, should follow what actually shows up in the font book.