Brick by brick: News about FontStruct

Let 2010 begin!

Before the year ends there is still time for a couple of last minute new items:

FontMortar update

As many of you know, a new version of the FontMortar – FontStruct’s font-generating software – is online since last week. There were some initial glitches with spacing and corrupted download files, but with help of many reports from FontStructors all problems have been fixed.

The main purpose of this update was to make font generation more efficient and save processor effort and time, consequently reducing server costs. We can now also proudly say that FontStruct’s carbon footprint is much smaller.

Font generation on FontStruct works as before, but a lot faster and more powerful: FontMortar should now handle those huge FontStructions which couldn’t be downloaded before.

If you happen to be the proud creator of one of such GigaStructions: please give it another try and let us know if they are working now.

Article about FontStruct workshop

In November I had the opportunity to teach a workshop using FontStruct at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany. During one week 14 students designed their own screen fonts using FontStruct. It was a great experience: observing FontStruct in action in a classroom was very valuable, and the final results were very, very good.

If you would like to know more, I’ve written a report about the workshop including some visual notes and results from students.

Logging off

After six months as FontStruct’s community manager I am logging off today to enjoy one month of vacation, far from email and internet connection.

It was a lot of fun to witness the day-by-day development of FontStruct over the last 6 months. I’ve seen amazing new designs emerging every week, and I’ve got to know lots of cool people with many different personalities and backgrounds.

It has truly been a great honor and pleasure for me to be a part of FontStruct during this time. I’ll be back in February – not as community manager, but as one more passionate FontStructor. ;-)

Until then, take care & and have a great start in 2010!

Happy Holidays!

It’s amazing how fast time goes by when we are being creative.

The year 2009 is almost over, and we would like to thank all FontStructors for their great work.

To celebrate this year’s fantastic production we are now displaying all Featured FontStructions of 2009 on the website.

And so you don’t have to reload your browser several times, we’ve also put them together in a single image as a small present for you:

Merry Christmas & happy holidays!

FontStruct Shop

The long awaited FontStruct t-shirts are finally available!

This week we are launching the new FontStruct Shop with a few classic FontStruct items to start. The initial range of products feature the original FontStruct logo. The designs are printed using our shop partner Spreadshirt’s high quality “flex” printing process which produces great results for vector graphics.

In the shop you can find not only t-shirts (for boys and girls, in different sizes) but also caps, bags and other items.

Shipping is currently available for North America, Western Europe and some other parts of the world (see the full list of countries here). We hope we can add more countries to the list at some point.

All revenue will go to support the project.