Table CPAL — Color Palette (OT §8.8.6).

Module tableCpal | Source packages/front/office/fonts/src/table/cpal.js | Deps fontErrors, fontReader | Worker-safe yes

RGBA palettes used by COLR layered glyphs. v0 = palettes only; v1 adds paletteTypes/Labels/EntryLabels (light/dark variants).

Exports

Symbol Type Description
parseCpal function (bytes) => { version, numPaletteEntries, numPalettes, palettes: Array<{r,g,b,a}[]>, paletteTypesArrayOffset?, paletteLabelsArrayOffset?, paletteEntryLabelsArrayOffset?, paletteTypes? }.
tableCpal factory Factory.

Usage

import fw from '@awacloud/fw';
import { fw_require, modules } from '@awacloud/fonts';

for (const m of [...fw_require, ...modules]) fw.runtime.register(m);
const { parseCpal } = fw.runtime.resolve('tableCpal');
const cpal = parseCpal(sfnt.tables.CPAL.bytes);
console.log(cpal.palettes[0][0]); // { r, g, b, a } for palette 0's 1st stop

Notes

  • Raw records are BGRA (8-bit) → reformatted to { r, g, b, a }.
  • v1 fields are optional (offset 0 = absent).
  • Only paletteTypes is resolved into an array when its offset is set; paletteLabelsArrayOffset and paletteEntryLabelsArrayOffset are stored as-is but not decoded into paletteLabels / paletteEntryLabels arrays — resolving those name table indices is left to the consumer.

See also