OpenType-SVG Fonts: Everything You Need to Know As font technology has advanced, one of the more recent formats to emerge is OpenType-SVG, a font format that either has some or all of its components presented as svg scaleable vector graphics. OpenType-SVG fonts feature multiple colors, gradients, or patterns that are actually embedded into the characters themselves, although they still function similarly to the way regular OpenType fonts do otherwise.  That’s the primary distinction between traditional and OpenType-SVG fonts, in fact.