Even as the web scintillates in a rainbow of colours, digital fonts persist in a monochromatic past resembling the long-gone era of wood and metal type. This may at last be about to change. A new standard, backed by Microsoft and incorporated into its Windows 8.1 release, will allow true, infinitely resizeable multicoloured type on the internet http://econ.st/1av9ytR

Even as the web scintillates in a rainbow of colours, digital fonts persist in a monochromatic past resembling the long-gone era of wood and metal type. This may at last be about to change. A new standard, backed by Microsoft and incorporated into its Windows 8.1 release, will allow true, infinitely resizeable multicoloured type on the internet http://econ.st/1av9ytR