Multicolor fonts?

December 11, 2007 9:31 AM

I am looking for a multicolor font with a Christmas theme to make a list of numbers. These numbers will be pulled by participants in a Yankee Swap to determine the pecking order. Do multicolor fonts exist and if so, where can I find some freebies? Should I be looking for clip art numbers or something else?
posted by genefinder to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

There are lots of places online to get free Christmas fonts, or you could open a graphics program and use clip art of an ornament or tree or something and put your own numbers on it. You have to assign colors yourself - the default color for any font is black. You could also take a public domain image and add numbers (there are literally thousands of Christmas images at Gutenberg). How many numbers are we talking? If it isn't a ridiculous number, and you don't have a graphic program or the know-how to make the list, I can do it for you and upload it as a pdf file that you can print out.
posted by iconomy at 9:45 AM on December 11, 2007

Fonts are not singly associated with colors. Pick a playful Christmasy font and change the letters manually to change the color, or find an application that will do it for you. Clip art could also work.
posted by disillusioned at 9:46 AM on December 11, 2007

I recall that there have been some multicolour fonts long ago for now-defunct computer systems, but they were bitmap fonts, not vector like modern ones, and so no good for printing.

With a non-oddball computer using non-oddball software, the fonts will require you to add the colour (such as using photoshop to dress up whatever font you want into the colours you want)

So yes, looking for clipart is probably a better bet if you really don't want to do it yourself. As an alternative, searching flickr or GIS for photos of numbers and christmas might land you colourful images of christmas-themed numbers. (a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=311382718&size=l">for example.
posted by -harlequin- at 9:53 AM on December 11, 2007

here's the link without broken html :-)
posted by -harlequin- at 9:54 AM on December 11, 2007