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TTF — Colour Font, COLR v0 Layers with CPAL

A COLR version 0 colour font: three Private Use Area icons, each drawn as two layer glyphs that index CPAL palette entries, with ordinary monochrome glyf outlines underneath as the fallback. The baseline colour-font case that every modern browser supports. Original typeface, free to use.

Specimen — this file, loaded live via @font-facettf

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 version 0
Palettes
2
Colors Per Palette
2
Base Glyphs
3
Layers Per Glyph
2
Glyph Map
U+E100 badge, U+E101 wave, U+E102 chip
Monochrome Fallback
glyf outlines for every base glyph
Glyphs
78

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Render U+E100 to U+E102 in a COLR-aware renderer and again in one that ignores COLR.
Expected result
The COLR-aware renderer paints two coloured layers per icon from CPAL palette 0; the plain renderer draws the same shapes in a single colour from glyf instead of showing .notdef.

What is a .ttf file?

TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.

How to use this file

Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.

How to use this file for testing

“TTF — Colour Font, COLR v0 Layers with CPAL” 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("NovusColorLayers.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }

Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.