OTF — Colour Font, COLR Layers over CFF Outlines
COLR and CPAL over CFF rather than glyf outlines. COLR is outline-agnostic by specification, but plenty of tooling assumes colour fonts are TrueType-flavoured — this is the file that finds out. Original typeface, free to use.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Grotesk P7 Color
- Units Per Em
- 1000
- Cap Height
- 700
- X Height
- 500
- Wave
- p7
- Seed
- 20260807
- Built With
- fontTools 4.x
- Determinism
- head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
- Usage Rights
- original artwork, free for any use
- Colour Format
- COLR version 0 + CPAL
- Outlines
- CFF (Type 2 charstrings)
- Palettes
- 2
- Glyph Map
- U+E100 badge, U+E101 wave, U+E102 chip
- Note
- COLR is outline-agnostic; this is the CFF-flavoured case
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Load the OTF and render the icon codepoints in a COLR-aware renderer.
- Expected result
- Colour layers render from CFF charstrings; the table directory shows CFF with no glyf, and the fallback path still draws monochrome outlines.
What is a .otf file?
OTF (OpenType Font) is a scalable font format built on the TrueType structure but able to carry PostScript/CFF cubic-Bezier outlines and advanced typographic features like ligatures and alternates. It supports large Unicode glyph sets and rich layout tables. It is a professional-grade format for desktop and web.
How to use this file
Use an example OTF to test OpenType parsing, advanced layout-feature handling, glyph extraction, and font-conversion or subsetting pipelines.
How to use this file for testing
“OTF — Colour Font, COLR Layers over CFF Outlines” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: seed 20260807. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusColorCFF.otf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
- otfOTF — CFF (Cubic) OutlinesThe same design in CFF outlines: cubic Type 2 charstrings with no glyf and no loca. The half of the pair that catches code assuming every OpenType font is TrueType-flavoured. Original typeface, free to use.
- otfOTF — Variable Font with CFF2 (cubic) OutlinesA variable font whose outlines are CFF2 rather than glyf, so the variation deltas live inside blended charstrings and there is no gvar table at all. The case that breaks tools which assume every variable font is TrueType-flavoured. Original typeface, free to use.
- otfOTF — Web Container Source, CFF (Type 2) OutlinesThe uncompressed CFF (Type 2) source for this container set. Every WOFF and WOFF2 file in the group is packed from exactly these bytes, so a compression comparison is measuring the container and nothing else. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Contextual Alternates (calt)Contextual alternate substitution that fires on doubled letters: the second letter of aa, ee, oo, nn, ss and tt is replaced by an alternate carrying a visible baseline underscore, so a shaping result can be read straight off the page instead of out of a debug log. calt is on by default, which makes it a good test of whether a renderer applies default features at all. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Every OpenType Feature in This FamilyEvery feature this family defines in one face — ligatures, kerning, contextual alternates, small caps, three stylistic sets, four figure features, fractions, mark attachment, aalt and locl. The single font to point a feature-discovery UI at. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttfTTF — Figure Sets (lnum, onum, tnum, pnum)All four figure features over one digit set: the default is proportional lining, tnum flattens every digit to 620 units for column alignment, pnum restores the proportional widths, and onum drops five digits below the baseline and raises two above the x-height. The measurable case for testing font-variant-numeric. Original typeface, free to use.
Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.