Maybe this is a weird question, but can the user change color if I make a simple black circle with a letter? Just like the user icons, here in the forum.
I want to use at font, for political parties in a template… for articles on the web.
I need to make a font that can change color (with circles and a letter).
Only the circle should change to a user specified color, and the letter should ALWAYS stay white.
I have tried with other font apps and making a ttf… but it always goes black.
Hi there,
its really simple - just make a cutout of the letter shape from the circle with the path finder tool in illustrator. The cutout simply simply let the background color “shine through”.
The result is a compound path that you name after the desired character and drop it in the fontself dialog.
I’ve done that for a custom font of Helvetica in circle which includes all the normal characters and many ligatures of letters and numbers for bullet points and numbered lists like (A1)…(X20), (1a)…(20x), all roman numbers from (I)…(XX) which are about 750 glyphs in two different font styles circle and circle filled.
Thank you for the response, 750 is a lot 
I should maybe specify that we also do dark mode, and that would change the white letter to dark.
I did the cutout version and noticed it …
Is there a way to keep the letter white, and ONLY change the circle?
Hi,
there are two different fonts:
Standard fonts - can only have ONE color, their color you chose in your application for that character(s) later,
Color fonts - you can set different colors for different objects (like in emoji fonts) these colors cannot be changed later when used - as far as I know.
What you could do is do two different font styles with the same font family name, one for light mode and one for dark mode
I myself have not yet created a color font myself, primarily because I didn’t needed any yet so far.
Good and very smart idea, I will try that
Thank you again.