@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
   Rotating a 1920×1080 photo by 30° takes 51 instead of 119 ms (61 instead of 114 ms with alpha). Opaque pixels stay
   within 1 of 3.2.1 (0.5-2% of the values differ), what shows of translucent ones (also the faded edges) within
   about 2.5 steps. `fast: false` keeps the precise sampling.
+- `Image.renderText` takes several fonts by priority (`[text, emoji]`): every character comes from the first font that
+  has it, the first font sets the line height. Color glyphs keep their colors: COLR version 0 layers with CPAL
+  palettes (e.g. Twemoji) and CBDT/CBLC bitmaps (e.g. Noto Color Emoji, which now loads at all, it has no outlines).
+  Invisible characters like joiners and variation selectors take no room, as in browsers. Emoji sequences (skin tones,
+  flags, families) still show as their parts.
 
 ### Performance
 
 
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ deno add jsr:@matmen/imagescript     # Deno (npm:imagescript works too)
 - [Rendering SVGs](https://imagescript.matmen.dev/classes/Image.html#rendersvg) (shapes, paths, gradients, strokes, clip paths,
   masks, CSS; no text, images or filters)
 - [Rendering vector fonts](https://imagescript.matmen.dev/classes/Image.html#rendertext) (TrueType and OpenType, with kerning,
-  outlines and TrueType hinting)
+  outlines, TrueType hinting, fallback fonts and color emoji)
 - [Resizing](https://imagescript.matmen.dev/classes/Image.html#resize) (bilinear, bicubic, area averaging and nearest neighbor)
 - Image manipulation functions ([crop](https://imagescript.matmen.dev/classes/Image.html#crop)
   , [rotate](https://imagescript.matmen.dev/classes/Image.html#rotate)
 
@@ -2031,45 +2031,58 @@ export class Image {
 
     /**
      * Creates a new image containing the rendered text.
-     * @param font TrueType (ttf/ttc) or OpenType (otf) font buffer to use
+     * @param font TrueType (ttf/ttc) or OpenType (otf) font buffer to use, or several by priority: every character
+     *     comes from the first font that has it (e.g. `[text, emoji]`), the first one sets the line height. Color
+     *     glyphs (COLR version 0 layers and CBDT bitmaps, as in emoji fonts) keep their colors
      * @param size Font size in pixels (per em)
      * @param text Text to render
      * @param options Color, layout and style, see {@link TextOptions}; the image grows by the outline width on every
      *     side
      * @return The rendered text
      */
-    static renderText(font: BinaryData, size: number, text: string, options?: TextOptions): Promise<Image>;
+    static renderText(font: BinaryData | BinaryData[], size: number, text: string, options?: TextOptions): Promise<Image>;
     /**
      * Creates a new image containing the rendered text.
-     * @param font TrueType (ttf/ttc) or OpenType (otf) font buffer to use
+     * @param font TrueType (ttf/ttc) or OpenType (otf) font buffer to use, or several by priority: every character
+     *     comes from the first font that has it (e.g. `[text, emoji]`), the first one sets the line height. Color
+     *     glyphs (COLR version 0 layers and CBDT bitmaps, as in emoji fonts) keep their colors
      * @param size Font size in pixels (per em)
      * @param text Text to render
      * @param [color=0xffffffff] Text color to use
      * @param [layout] The text layout to use
      * @param style Outline, see {@link TextStyle}; the image grows by the outline width on every side
      * @return The rendered text
      */
-    static renderText(font: BinaryData, size: number, text: string, color?: Color, layout?: TextLayout, style?: TextStyle): Promise<Image>;
-    static async renderText(font: BinaryData, size: number, text: string, colorOrOptions: Color | TextOptions = 0xffffffff, layoutArgument?: TextLayout, styleArgument: TextStyle = {}): Promise<Image> {
+    static renderText(font: BinaryData | BinaryData[], size: number, text: string, color?: Color, layout?: TextLayout, style?: TextStyle): Promise<Image>;
+    static async renderText(font: BinaryData | BinaryData[], size: number, text: string, colorOrOptions: Color | TextOptions = 0xffffffff, layoutArgument?: TextLayout, styleArgument: TextStyle = {}): Promise<Image> {
         const options: TextOptions = isOptions(colorOrOptions) ? colorOrOptions : { ...styleArgument, color: colorOrOptions, layout: layoutArgument };
         const { color = 0xffffffff, layout = new TextLayout(), strokeWidth = 0, strokeColor = 0x000000ff, hinting = true } = options;
         if (isNaN(strokeWidth) || strokeWidth < 0)
             throw new RangeError('Invalid stroke width');
+        const fonts = Array.isArray(font) ? font : [font];
+        if (!fonts.length) throw new RangeError('No font given');
 
-        const rendered = textRenderer.render(view(font), size, text, layout, hinting);
         const [r, g, b, a] = Image.colorToRGBA(color);
+        // color glyph layers in the text color take it without its alpha, which applies to the whole color glyph
+        const rendered = await textRenderer.render(fonts.map(view), size, text, layout, hinting, (r << 24 | g << 16 | b << 8 | 255) >>> 0);
 
         // the outline needs room around the glyphs
         const pad = Math.ceil(strokeWidth);
         const width = rendered.width + 2 * pad, height = rendered.height + 2 * pad;
         const coverage = new Uint8Array(width * height);
         for (let y = 0; y < rendered.height; y++)
             coverage.set(rendered.coverage.subarray(y * rendered.width, (y + 1) * rendered.width), (y + pad) * width + pad);
+        let colored: Uint8ClampedArray | null = null;
+        if (rendered.color) {
+            colored = new Uint8ClampedArray(width * height * 4);
+            for (let y = 0; y < rendered.height; y++)
+                colored.set(rendered.color.subarray(y * rendered.width * 4, (y + 1) * rendered.width * 4), ((y + pad) * width + pad) * 4);
+        }
 
         const image = new Image(width, height);
         const bitmap = image.bitmap;
 
-        if (!strokeWidth) {
+        if (!strokeWidth && !colored) {
             for (let i = 0; i < coverage.length; i++) {
                 if (!coverage[i]) continue;
                 bitmap[i * 4] = r;
@@ -2080,19 +2093,38 @@ export class Image {
             return image;
         }
 
-        const stroke = outline(coverage, width, height, strokeWidth);
+        // the outline goes around the color glyphs as well
+        let shape = coverage;
+        if (colored && strokeWidth) {
+            shape = coverage.slice();
+            for (let i = 0; i < shape.length; i++) shape[i] = Math.max(shape[i], colored[i * 4 + 3]);
+        }
+        const stroke = strokeWidth ? outline(shape, width, height, strokeWidth) : null;
         const [sr, sg, sb, sa] = Image.colorToRGBA(strokeColor);
 
-        // the glyphs drawn over their outline
+        // color glyphs over the text (premultiplied, with the text's alpha), both over their outline
         for (let i = 0; i < coverage.length; i++) {
-            const af = coverage[i] / 255 * a / 255, as = stroke[i] * sa / 255;
-            const ao = af + as * (1 - af);
-            if (ao <= 0) continue;
-
-            bitmap[i * 4] = (r * af + sr * as * (1 - af)) / ao;
-            bitmap[i * 4 + 1] = (g * af + sg * as * (1 - af)) / ao;
-            bitmap[i * 4 + 2] = (b * af + sb * as * (1 - af)) / ao;
-            bitmap[i * 4 + 3] = ao * 255;
+            let af = coverage[i] / 255 * a / 255, pr = r * af, pg = g * af, pb = b * af;
+            if (colored && colored[i * 4 + 3]) {
+                const ca = colored[i * 4 + 3] / 255 * a / 255, keep = 1 - ca, f = a / 255;
+                pr = colored[i * 4] * f + pr * keep;
+                pg = colored[i * 4 + 1] * f + pg * keep;
+                pb = colored[i * 4 + 2] * f + pb * keep;
+                af = ca + af * keep;
+            }
+            if (stroke) {
+                const as = stroke[i] * sa / 255 * (1 - af);
+                pr += sr * as;
+                pg += sg * as;
+                pb += sb * as;
+                af += as;
+            }
+            if (af <= 0) continue;
+
+            bitmap[i * 4] = pr / af;
+            bitmap[i * 4 + 1] = pg / af;
+            bitmap[i * 4 + 2] = pb / af;
+            bitmap[i * 4 + 3] = af * 255;
         }
 
         return image;
 
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+// color glyphs: layers of outlines with palette colors (COLR version 0 with CPAL), and bitmaps (CBDT/CBLC, PNG)
+
+import { Font } from './font.ts';
+
+/** an outline glyph drawn in a color, RGBA as 0xrrggbbaa (null: the text color) */
+export interface ColorLayer {
+    glyph: number;
+    color: number | null;
+}
+
+/** a glyph's PNG and where it goes, in pixels of its strike */
+export interface BitmapGlyph {
+    png: Uint8Array;
+    /** pixels per em of the strike */
+    ppem: number;
+    /** size of the bitmap */
+    width: number;
+    height: number;
+    /** offset of the bitmap's left edge from the pen position */
+    left: number;
+    /** offset of the bitmap's top edge above the baseline */
+    top: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The layers of the font's color glyphs (COLR version 0 records, with the colors of the first CPAL palette), null if the
+ * font has none. The lookup returns null for glyphs without layers
+ */
+export function parseColorLayers(font: Font): ((glyph: number) => ColorLayer[] | null) | null {
+    const colr = font.tables.COLR?.offset, cpal = font.tables.CPAL?.offset;
+    if (colr === undefined || cpal === undefined) return null;
+
+    const baseCount = font.u16(colr + 2), bases = colr + font.u32(colr + 4), layers = colr + font.u32(colr + 8);
+    if (!baseCount) return null;
+
+    // the first palette
+    const entries = font.u16(cpal + 2), records = cpal + font.u32(cpal + 8), first = font.u16(cpal + 12);
+    const color = (index: number): number | null => {
+        if (index === 0xffff || index >= entries) return null;
+        const o = records + (first + index) * 4; // blue, green, red, alpha
+        return (font.u8(o + 2) << 24 | font.u8(o + 1) << 16 | font.u8(o) << 8 | font.u8(o + 3)) >>> 0;
+    };
+
+    const cache = new Map<number, ColorLayer[] | null>();
+    return glyph => {
+        let result = cache.get(glyph);
+        if (result !== undefined) return result;
+        result = null;
+        // base glyph records are sorted by glyph
+        for (let lo = 0, hi = baseCount - 1; lo <= hi;) {
+            const mid = lo + hi >> 1, record = bases + mid * 6, id = font.u16(record);
+            if (id < glyph) lo = mid + 1;
+            else if (id > glyph) hi = mid - 1;
+            else {
+                const start = font.u16(record + 2), count = font.u16(record + 4);
+                result = [];
+                for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+                    const layer = layers + (start + i) * 4;
+                    result.push({ glyph: font.u16(layer), color: color(font.u16(layer + 2)) });
+                }
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        cache.set(glyph, result);
+        return result;
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The font's bitmap glyphs (CBDT/CBLC with PNG images) from the strike closest to `size` (the smallest at least as
+ * large, else the largest), null if the font has none. The lookup returns null for glyphs without a bitmap
+ */
+export function parseBitmaps(font: Font, size: number): ((glyph: number) => BitmapGlyph | null) | null {
+    const cblc = font.tables.CBLC?.offset, cbdt = font.tables.CBDT?.offset;
+    if (cblc === undefined || cbdt === undefined) return null;
+
+    const sizes = font.u32(cblc + 4);
+    let strike = -1, strikePpem = 0;
+    for (let i = 0; i < sizes; i++) {
+        const ppem = font.u8(cblc + 8 + i * 48 + 45);
+        const better = strike < 0 || (strikePpem < size ? ppem > strikePpem : ppem >= size && ppem < strikePpem);
+        if (better) { strike = cblc + 8 + i * 48; strikePpem = ppem; }
+    }
+    if (strike < 0) return null;
+
+    const array = cblc + font.u32(strike), subtables = font.u32(strike + 8);
+
+    // where a glyph's data starts in CBDT, its image format, and its metrics if the index holds them (image format 19)
+    const locate = (glyph: number): { offset: number, format: number, metrics: number } | null => {
+        for (let i = 0; i < subtables; i++) {
+            const entry = array + i * 8, firstGlyph = font.u16(entry), lastGlyph = font.u16(entry + 2);
+            if (glyph < firstGlyph || glyph > lastGlyph) continue;
+
+            const header = array + font.u32(entry + 4);
+            const indexFormat = font.u16(header), format = font.u16(header + 2), data = cbdt + font.u32(header + 4), k = glyph - firstGlyph;
+            switch (indexFormat) {
+                case 1: {
+                    const start = font.u32(header + 8 + k * 4), end = font.u32(header + 12 + k * 4);
+                    return end > start ? { offset: data + start, format, metrics: -1 } : null;
+                }
+                case 2: return { offset: data + k * font.u32(header + 8), format, metrics: header + 12 };
+                case 3: {
+                    const start = font.u16(header + 8 + k * 2), end = font.u16(header + 10 + k * 2);
+                    return end > start ? { offset: data + start, format, metrics: -1 } : null;
+                }
+                case 4: {
+                    const count = font.u32(header + 8);
+                    for (let j = 0; j < count; j++) {
+                        const pair = header + 12 + j * 4;
+                        if (font.u16(pair) === glyph) return { offset: data + font.u16(pair + 2), format, metrics: -1 };
+                    }
+                    return null;
+                }
+                case 5: {
+                    const size = font.u32(header + 8), count = font.u32(header + 20);
+                    for (let j = 0; j < count; j++)
+                        if (font.u16(header + 24 + j * 2) === glyph) return { offset: data + j * size, format, metrics: header + 12 };
+                    return null;
+                }
+                default: return null;
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    };
+
+    const cache = new Map<number, BitmapGlyph | null>();
+    return glyph => {
+        let result = cache.get(glyph);
+        if (result !== undefined) return result;
+        result = null;
+
+        const location = locate(glyph);
+        if (location) {
+            const { format } = location;
+            let o = location.offset, metrics = location.metrics;
+            // small metrics (height, width, bearingX, bearingY, advance) and big ones start alike
+            if (format === 17) { metrics = o; o += 5; }
+            else if (format === 18) { metrics = o; o += 8; }
+            if ((format === 17 || format === 18 || format === 19) && metrics >= 0) {
+                const length = font.u32(o);
+                result = { png: font.data.subarray(o + 4, o + 4 + length), ppem: strikePpem, width: font.u8(metrics + 1), height: font.u8(metrics), left: font.i8(metrics + 2), top: font.i8(metrics + 3) };
+            }
+        }
+
+        cache.set(glyph, result);
+        return result;
+    };
+}
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ export class Font {
     lineGap: number;
     numberOfHMetrics: number;
     numGlyphs: number;
-    outlines: 'glyf' | 'cff';
+    /** where the glyph outlines come from ('none' for fonts with only bitmap glyphs) */
+    outlines: 'glyf' | 'cff' | 'none';
     cff: CFF | null = null;
     cmap: (codepoint: number) => number;
     outlineCache: Map<number, PathCommand[]>;
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ export class Font {
             this.outlines = 'cff';
             this.cff = parseCFF(this, this.tables['CFF '].offset);
         } else if (this.tables.CFF2) throw new Error('Font: CFF2 outlines are not supported');
+        else if (this.tables.CBDT && this.tables.CBLC) this.outlines = 'none';
         else throw new Error('Font: no supported glyph outlines');
 
         this.cmap = parseCmap(this, this.tables.cmap.offset);
@@ -221,7 +223,7 @@ export class Font {
         if (glyph >= this.numGlyphs) glyph = 0;
         let path = this.outlineCache.get(glyph);
         if (!path) {
-            path = this.outlines === 'glyf' ? this.glyfOutline(glyph, 0) : this.cffOutline(glyph);
+            path = this.outlines === 'glyf' ? this.glyfOutline(glyph, 0) : this.outlines === 'cff' ? this.cffOutline(glyph) : [];
             this.outlineCache.set(glyph, path);
         }
         return path;