Let 2010 begin!
News | Gustavo Ferreira | December 31st, 2009
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!
