When using a colored emoji font directly after a save/restore pair in context mkiv following text gets lost: \pdfvariable compresslevel=0 \font\fontB={file:seguiemj.ttf:mode=node;+colr;} \starttext \pdfextension save\relax \pdfextension restore\relax {\fontB \char"2603} xxxx %xxxx is not there \stoptext The problem is that the coordinate transformation from the restore ends inside the emoji code: /Span << /ActualText <feff2603> >> BDC q 0.000 g 1 0 0 1 -70.867 -714.33967 cm %<---- BT (Such an save/restore part is e.g. inserted with a scaled graphics: \externalfigure[tinypicture.pdf][width=1cm]) -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/