TTF without B&W variants?

[Tricertops]

You include this warning with every release:

The font works in all operating systems, but will currently only show color emoji in Firefox, Thunderbird, Photoshop CC 2017, and Windows Edge V38.14393+. This is not a limitation of the font, but of the operating systems and applications. Regular B&W outline emoji are included for backwards/fallback compatibility.

Why don’t you build a TTF file without the B&W variants, so the font works everywhere?

[Crissov]

That is not how this works. It is currently impossible to build a single font file that would provide color glyphs on all platforms that support color fonts at all, because there are four different (but standardized) ways to do color glyphs.

[Tricertops]

I just find it funny that you/they offer special TTF file for OSX, that doesn’t work in native apps or Safari.

[Crissov]

If I remember correctly, @eosrei has stated several times that he would like to add generating an SBIX variant to the build process but hasn't had the time or expertise to actually do it.

[13rac1]

😆 It's just the time. I've got the expertise. 😉 It's not high on my priority list because I run Linux, not MacOS. I will do it someday if someone else doesn't... I've been building many things with LEDs and C & C++ lately instead.

Previous SBIX release question is #35 So this is a dupe.