Discussion on 2.6 (release candidate; April 2024)

but I found the font in Window can’t show in color, but no problem in macbook. is my window desktop too old or some issue in Window? (usually I do the video-editing with my Window desktop) @Suie

What features and whether color shows depends on the Windows version, as well as the application used. From k.k and Carine’s reports, Win 11 / Word and Win 11 / OneNote works. Video editing apps generally don’t pay too much attention to text/font-rendering, and they infrequently get this right.

One experimental feature, that would go into the Lab subscription program, is a companion web-app for the fonts.

This is far from production-ready, but the idea is to empower incompatible OS/apps by letting users type, then copy-paste a transparent PNG/SVG into the application (this is how the text above was prepared).

My eventual goal for this is for video-creators to upload a pair of captions (e.g., as webVTTs), and can download an mp4. The video would

  • have transparent background, and
  • render the pair of captions together in the requested style

I have some audio-processing work going on the side; in the super-far future I hope we can have karaoke styled text partially automated. I think those would be super great esp for children’s material.