Is it possible to knock out (ie set as a mask) an element that will also knock out of other subsequent/previous letters when typing? This would be very useful for large shadows that should go behind all the other letters in a word rather than overlap.
Sadly, no.
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This is a limitation of the OpenType format, sadly nothing we can do about it.
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Is there a workaround? Might an update to the OT format make it technically possible in future?
Every single app that displays fonts would need to be updated. And that is not going to happen.
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Color fonts could help to a certain extent. But you’d need to predict the background color, and it’s unpredictable whether the next glyph will be displayed in front of or behind the previous one.
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