Depicto

Features

Color font: Depicto Mosaic is a color font that dedicated to my love for plastic construction color bricks. Every letter element is painted in random but non-repeating color from the palette of 17 predefined colors. This palette is selected in such a way that it looks sufficiently contrasting on both white and black backgrounds.

Color fonts are represented in two versions – with COLR table or SVG table. COLR version is needed for all the web browsers and most of the desktop applications. SVG version is needed for InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Inkscape, CorelDRAW. Figma doesn’t support color fonts yet (checked in 2025). Please check the full list of color fonts support.

You can change the color palette to your liking to better match the colors of your project. In the web browsers you can do it directly, by adding CSS rule to override default colors:@font-palette-values --AlternateColors {
font-family: "Font Family Name";
override-colors: 0 #FF5078, 1 #00B482;
}

p {
font-family: "Font Family Name";
font-palette: --AlternateColors;
}Desktop applications do not yet allow you to change the color palette directly. However, there are a few more non-direct ways to change the color palette in applications. In Illustrator – by converting text to outlines and then using Recolor Arkwork feature. In Photoshop – by using Blending Options on Layers panel.

Stylistic Set 1 “Pictograms”: The main font feature is a large set of 600+ pictograms and emoticons. See the complete list of pictograms and their keywords in the Specimen pdf. It doesn't cover all possible Unicode pictograms, but the set may be expanded in future updates. There are a three ways how to use them.
1. By manually selecting pictograms from the Glyphs panel in a graphic editor.
2. By copying pictograms from the Specimen pdf and pasting them into the text.
3. By activating the Stylistic Set 1 and typing the pictogram keywords like :smile: :happy: :rofl: :sad: :facepalm: :pear: :rose: :horse: :bike: :house: :laptop: and so on. For example: I'm so :happy: to see these beautiful :tulips: and :roses: in your :garden:, good work :clap:. GitHub, Slack, Basecamp, and others use such a markdown approach at the application level, but Depicto does this word processing at the font level, so it's available right in a text/graphic editors and a web browsers.

Here's how to apply Stylistic Set to the text. InDesign (2017+): Character panel > OpenType button > Stylistic Sets. Illustrator (2017+): OpenType panel > Stylistic Sets icon. Photoshop (2020+): Properties panel > Type Options > Stylistic Sets icon. CSS: font-feature-settings: "ss01" 1;

Stylistic Set 2 “Change Emoji Skin Tone”: This way you can change the skin tone of emoticons (smileys). In the Depicto Mosaic style, a classic yellow smileys become brown ones. And in Depicto Mono style the result depends on the background color – for a white background, white faces are replaced by black ones, and accordingly, for a black background, black faces are replaced by white ones. So just remember – when you change the background color from light to dark or vice versa (using Depicto Mono font), the faces appear inverted, and you can use this Stylistic Set to reinvert them back if needed.

Stylistic Set 3 “Arrows”: Left: <- Right: -> Up: <| Down: |> Left Right: <-> Up Down: <|> North West: <\ North East: /> South East: \> South West: </

Stylistic Set 4 “Circled Numbers”: Numbers are replaced with a numbers in a circle.

Stylistic Set 5 “Circled Black Numbers”: Numbers are replaced with a numbers in a black circle.

Small Capitals: Initial, Medial, Terminal forms. Required Ligatures.

Capitals to Small Capitals: Uppercase letters, Lining figures, and some punctuation are replaced with Small Capitals forms.

Figures (numbers): Lining, Oldstyle, Proportional, Tabular, Circled, Circled Black, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator, Denominator.

Fractions: ¼½¾⅐⅑⅒⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚⅛⅜⅝⅞⅟ (precomposed). Any other fractions (even those typed through a slash) will also be displayed correctly, with the automatic replacement to Numerator + fraction + Denominator.

Slashed Zero: All “0” figures are replaced with a slashed/dotted zero.

Ordinals: adehlnorst

Case Sensitive Forms: ()[]{}‹›«»-–—•·#%‰@ and Arrows are centered on capitals. Oldstyle figures (if presented) are replaced with Lining figures.

Case conversion for monotonic Greek: ΆΈΉΊΌΎΏ. Greek uppercase accented characters lose their tonos accent and retain only dieresis in All Caps mode. Turned on by default. If you need tonos accents in All Caps then turn off Contextual Alternates (calt) feature.

Standard Ligatures: ff

Localized Forms: Characters substituted by their adapted alternate form for Azeri, Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, German, Kazakh, Macedonian, Moldavian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Tatar, Turkish languages.

Glyph Composition: Set of diacritics (600+ characters) precomposed from a base characters and combined diacritical marks.

Mark Positioning: Diacritical marks positioned for a base characters.

Arabic shaping: Feature required to process a shapes of the Arabic languages. Initial Forms, Medial Forms, Terminal Forms, Required Ligatures.

Languages

Arabic: Arabic, Kurdish, Malay (Jawi), Pashto, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Talysh, Urdu, Uyghur

Hebrew: Hebrew (Modern)

Greek: Greek (Modern)

Mkhedruli: Georgian

Cyrillic: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aleut, Altai, Avar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chaplino, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Dargwa, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Kazakh, Khalkha, Khanty, Kildin Sámi, Komi, Koryak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Mordvinic, Nenets, Ossetian, Romanian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Siberian Tatar, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut (Sakha)

Latin Europe: Albanian, Alsatian, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arvanitika, Asturian, Balkan Romani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Cimbrian, Colognian (Kölsch), Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Genoese, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jèrriais, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Kalaallisut, Karelian, Kashubian, Kven, Ladin, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Manx, Megleno-Romanian, Mirandese, Montenegrin, Neapolitan, Norwegian, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Picard, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Prussian, Romani, Romanian, Romansh, Rusyn, Sami (Inari, Lule, Northern, Southern, Pite, Skolt, Ume), Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovene (Slovenian), Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Tosk, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Welsh

Latin Asia: Amis, Ao, Asu, Atayal, Azerbaijani, Falam, Hakha Chin (Lai), Hani, Hmu (Qiandong Miao), Karakalpak, Khasi, Kurdish, Mizo, Nagamese (Naga Pidgin), Oroqen, Talysh, Tatar, Tedim, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Zaza

Latin Oceania: Acehnese, Anuta, Arrernte, Balinese, Batak, Bikol, Bislama, Buginese, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chuukese, Cook Islands Māori (Rarotongan), Drehu, Fijian, Filipino, Gilbertese (Kiribati), Gooniyandi, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, Indonesian, Javanese, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Madurese, Malaysian Malay, Māori, Marquesan, Marshallese, Meriam, Minangkabau, Murrinh-Patha, Ngiyampaa, Niuean, Noongar, Palauan, Paluan, Pijin, Pintupi, Pohnpeian, Rotokas, Samoan, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Toba Batak, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tuvaluan, Uab Meto (Dawan), Ulithian, Wallisian, Waray, Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Yapese, Yindjibarndi

Latin Africa: Acheron, Afar, Afrikaans, Aghem, Aja, Akan, Bafia, Bagirmi, Bambara, Baoulé, Bari, Bariba, Basaa, Bemba, Bena, Berba (Biali), Boko, Bono (Abron), Bushi, Cape Verdean Creole, Central Kilimanjaro, Central Yambasa (Yangben), Chewa (Nyanja), Chokwe, Comorian, Dagaare, Dagbani, Dangme, Dendi, Dholuo, Dinka, Dongolawi (Andaandi), Duala, Dyula, Edo (Bini), Embu, Ewe, Ewondo, Fante, Fon, Fula (Borgu Fulfulde, Maasina Fulfulde, Nigerian Fulfulde), Ga’anda, Gen, Gonja, Gusii, Hausa, Igbo, Jola, Kabiyè, Kabyle, Kako, Kamba, Kanuri, Kaonde, Keiyo (Elgeyo, Kalenjin), Kenzi, Khoekhoe (Nama), Kiga, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi (Rundi), Kissi, Kituba, Kongo, Konjo, Koyra Chiini, Koyraboro Senni, Kpelle, Krio, Kwanyama, Kulango, Kwasio, Limba, Lingala, Lobi, Lozi, Luba-Katanga, Luba-Kasai (Tshiluba), Luchazi (Nyemba), Luhya (Luyia), Luo, Maasai, Makhuwa, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Maninka, Maore, Mauritian Creole, Mbelime, Mende, Meru, Meta’, Miyobe, Mooré (Mossi), Mundang, Mwani, Nateni, Ndebele, Ndonga, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Nkore, Nobiin, Nso (Lamnso), Nuer, Nyamwezi, Nzima, Onĕipŏt, Oromo, Otuho, Ovambo, Pedi, Pherá (Xwela), Pulaar, Pular, Rangi, Rombo, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sena, Seychellois Creole, Shambala, Shilha (Tachelhit), Shilluk, Shona, Soga, Somali, Soninke, Sotho (Nothern, Southern), Sukuma, Susu, Swahili, Swazi, Taita, Tammari, Tasawaq, Teso, Temne, Tiv, Tonga, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Twi, Umbundu, Vai, Venda, Waama, Waci, Wasa, West Kilimanjaro, Wolof, Xhosa, Yao, Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu

Latin South America: Achuar (Shiwiar), Aguaruna, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri (Harákmbut), Antillean Creole, Apinayé, Arabela, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Awa Pit (Cuaiquer), Awetí, Aymara, Bora, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo, Chaʼpalaa (Chachi), Chayahuita, Chiltepec Chinantec, Cofán, Ese Ejja, Garifuna, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Huastec, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican, Kaingang, Kaqchikel, Kashinawa, K’iche’, Mam, Mapuche (Mapudungun), Matsés, Miskito, Murui Huitoto, Nahuatl, Nawat (Pipil), Nomatsiguenga, Northwestern Otomi, Ojitlán Chinantec, Páez, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Purépecha, Qʼeqchiʼ, Quechua, Saramaccan, Secoya, Seri, Shipibo, Shuar, Silacayoapan Mixtec, Siona, Sranan Tongo, Ticuna, Toba (Maskoy), Tojolabal, Totontepec Mixe, Tsafiki, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Urarina, Waorani (Sabela), Wayuu (Guajiro), Xavante, Yagua, Yaminawa, Yanesha’, Yanomamö, Yucatec Maya, Záparo, Zapotec

Latin North Native American: Abenaki, Aleut, Chickasaw, Gwich’in, Hän, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Innu-aimun (Montagnais), Lakota, Mi’kmaq, Mohawk, Munsee, Muscogee (Creek), Navajo, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Unami, Zuni

Latin Constructed: Esperanto, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Interlingue (Occidental), Klingon, Latino sine Flexione, Lojban, Novial, Slovio, Volapük

Glyphs

Glyphs highlighted in green are not encoded with a Unicode value. These are stylistic or contextual alternates, ligatures, small caps, oldstyle or tabular figures, decorations, localized forms, Arabic initial-medial-final forms, etc. Since they don’t have Unicode values, you can’t manually copy-paste them between different applications. These glyphs can be accessed by OpenType features, or through the Glyphs panel in the graphics editors.