100 FontStruct posters are now on sale at Etsy. The price is 10€ plus postage for those whose work appears on the poster, and a madly reasonable 20€ plus postage for everyone else. All proceeds will go towards paying for the printing and admin costs. Any surplus will go towards the further development of FontStruct. You’ll find some preview images in this post. Click on them for larger versions.
News | Rob Meek (meek) | November 15th, 2011 | 52 Comments
Dear FontStructors,
We quietly launched a new version of the FontStructor editor last week. So what’s new?
Expert Mode
We thought long and hard about the best way to add new features to the FontStructor editor without cluttering up the interface. Experienced users wish to create complex and sophisticated designs with FontStruct, but the platform has also always been about simplicity, ease-of-use and a non-technical approach to type design. How can we keep the interface simple and intuitive, whilst supporting those who want to push the boundaries of grid-based, modular design even further?
News | Rob Meek (meek) | October 6th, 2011 | 81 Comments
We’re very pleased that a number of FontStructions are featured in the latest edition of Slanted – #15 “Experimental”. Continue reading…
News | Rob Meek (meek) | September 2nd, 2011 | 5 Comments
There’s a new beta version of the FontStructor available for testing.
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructor/beta
We’d love you to take it for a spin and please let us know if you find any issues with it.
If you want to edit a specific FontStruction in the beta version, go to the FontStructor and load the FontStruction as usual. Once it has loaded, go to the beta URL above.
Apart from a few minor interface tweaks, there are some new features. Continue reading…
News | Rob Meek (meek) | August 31st, 2011 | 38 Comments
Thanks to everyone who entered the “Illustration” competition. The entries were numerous and wonderfully diverse this time around.
The results of the judging will be announced on this blog on Friday May 13th.
The judges are:
They’ve got their work cut out!
News | Rob Meek (meek) | May 3rd, 2011 | Comments Off
After the great success of the first two FontStruct competitions, “Handmade” and the “SportsComp“, we’re launching our third competition with the theme of “Illustration” and more great prizes.
Competitions, News | Rob Meek (meek) | April 8th, 2011 | 19 Comments
Over the last few weeks, FontStruct intern Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen AKA Tylo has been busy designing and testing some great new FontStruct T-Shirts. Here he is sporting the “T-FX 361331″ design which showcases the wonderful “fs I Square” by minimum. We thought it would make sense to offer some merchandise which showed off the talent of FontStruct designers, to compliment the existing products based on the FontStruct logo.
News | Rob Meek (meek) | January 19th, 2011 | 19 Comments
Dear FontStructors,
Thanks to everyone for another wonderful and creative year of FontStructing. FontStruct continues to grow and flourish with more than 350,000 FontStructions in the database and almost as many registered users. More than 15,000 original font designs are now being shared, and can be viewed and downloaded from the gallery.
New Advanced Feature: Brick stacking with Composite bricks.
As a small seasonal gift, we’re rolling out a new advanced feature allowing users to create even more custom brick shapes: You can now stack “composite” bricks on top of other simple or composite bricks. If you’re not sure what “brick stacking” is, or what “composite bricks” are, please read this help article first. Here are some examples of the new feature at work, creating new bricks:
– The original simple bricks are in grey. In yellow are composites. The stacks, including composites are in black.
News | Rob Meek (meek) | December 24th, 2010 | 13 Comments
I’m delighted to announce that FontShop has generously agreed to sponsor FontStruct for a further two years starting today.
Everyone knows that FontShop are leaders in the business of selling fonts. They launched FontStruct in April 2008 in order to promote their brand and raise their international profile, but behind the marketing strategies and business goals was a natural enthusiasm and love for the project itself. A company founded by typographers and designers rather than “suits”, FontShop is defined and set apart from its competitors by their passion for everything typographic and creative. FontStruct is just one expression of this.
318,000 confirmed registrations and 328,000 font designs later, FontStruct has proved itself the perfect playground for novice typographers, educators and modular-type fanatics alike. It simply would not exist without the faith, vision and financial support of its backers. So, on behalf of the FontStruct community,
… and thanks again
Alongside the new sponsorship deal, FontShop have agreed to transfer legal ownership of FontStruct to me, also starting today.
Very little should change for you, the users of FontStruct, but the “terms of use” and the “privacy policy” have been updated to reflect the new ownership. There will be other changes of course (some additional advertising will probably be appearing on the site for example) but please rest assured, I am committed to maintaining FontStruct as a free service for building, sharing and downloading modular, grid-based fonts.
Have a FontStructive day!
(“Thank you” typed using T: ariapenciroman by kix, H: RM Tubeway chrome by p2pnut, A: Scaffoldini by funk_king, N: RM Scrapheap FS 1.0 by p2pnut, K: cranestruct by funk_king, Y: Nuts Bolts and Wrenches by raiu, O: cedar by kekeh, U: Masheensmith by vertigokid)
News | Rob Meek (meek) | November 1st, 2010 | 14 Comments
The results are in for the second FontStruct competition “Handmade”. It was a thrilling three weeks with some quite extraordinary FontStructing and offline handiwork appearing on the site. I hope all participants and everyone else had as much fun as I did. The standard of entries was extremely high, making the task of judging an extremely difficult. The judges came up with a very broad and diverse range of favorites, but once the votes had been added together, some clear winners emerged. Continue reading…
Competitions, News | Rob Meek (meek) | October 19th, 2010 | 12 Comments
