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@meek Can you help us?
You've done a lot of designs, and had no rewards, so I understand your frustration. However I feel that your work is not quite ready for the big time quite yet. I think you should think out of the box, stop playing safe, be really creative, and do something spectacular.
FontStruct is a big community and it is hard to get noticed. We try to automatically filter what appears on the front page as a precaution - this is the first page that many new visitors see so we want to be cautious with it. I think more regular users spend more time looking at the live page and the gallery though.
In terms of help, I think the FontStruct community is unusually welcoming and helpful. Unfortunately we haven't got the resources to help everyone individually from FontStruct HQ but I think in many cases community members are in a better position to offer advice. The idea of a forum has often been mooted. Its still very much on the table and could provide an alternative way to get help and feedback.
Your work and community contribution certainly hasn't gone unnoticed. I'm loving rnd0m.
About the stacking thing - yes I'm aware of that but thanks for reminding me.
PS : I'm french, so excuse my sometimes aproximative english.
@minimum yes I'd like that too - something like a live page for every user would make a lot of sense.
p.s. @neurone: Your English is better than my ol' French teacher's. :D
This number is much greater than I thought.
1) Time zone settings
This may not be a problem for the majority of the FS network that reside in North America / Europe. But for Asian users of FS (such as me) the time is extremely off. This is just a simple request to make the time on the live page modifiable by time zone selections.
2) Unification of links
When you click on the name of the FontStruct on your FontStructions page it leads to a link ending in the name of the font, but when clicking the "View" button it gives a link ending in numbers. I think these should be unified just to the one ending in numbers, because if you use the one ending in the name other users are unable to follow the link if it is posted in a comment (or description of the font).
Thanks for the suggestions.
With the time zone. I'll think about that. Anyone else find that important?
Yes the links with the numbers are more reliable. If you ever link to your FontStruction you should use that link. If people rename their FontStructions then the "pretty" links with the name at the end do not work. The "pretty" links however are more attractive to search engines and easier for humans to work with.
It would be nice to have, but not critical.
The reason: While making glyphs, I tend to experiment a lot which results in a whole bunch of similar shapes created. For example, I may generate 5 different G shapes. Say none of those shapes is an unreasonable G so I hold onto them to see which might fit in better when the limitations of the design allows for only 1 reasonable M shape. Without deleting 4 possible final G, I move the four currently disfavored G to 'g'. If I'm working on the uppercase, the lowercase of the same soon fill up with extras. To test how things are shaping up, it is easiest to just to a Preview Sample Text. If the lowercase are filled with junk letters, what appears in the preview window is TTTTHHIIINNGGGG. All different T's, H'es , Is, Ns and Gs.
OK...now that I type it out, it sounds stupid.
Nevermind. :-)
The main thing to deal with in working with bricks using the 2:2 filter is to remember that each brick needs to be handled on the lower left. Since every brick now spans two grid spaces horizontally and vertically in a square, you will need to click and drag bricks from the lower left corner. This can get really confusing with multiple overlapping bricks.
Outline mode is a pretty nifty way to inspect glyph construction, but by and large it does not solve the gui problem Gene identifies here. How about adding a new view mode(s) which can be toggled to assist in finding the corners and extent of each brick?
This could be done in a variety of ways. A) A mesh-style, four-way gradient fill/overlay (say LL stronger red, UL subtler blue, UR subtler white, LR subtler yellow) + partial transparency for each brick. B) Indicating the lower-left corner of each brick’s area by overlaying a small right triangle of arbitrary color. C) A rollover effect which highlights a brick when one mouses over its selectable region.
I intend that my words paint a proper picture. Just too lazy right now to whip up an infographic. If there is great interest, or my words fail, I’ll give it a go (besides, I highly doubt my words convey just how pretty permutations of option A could look ;)
Give fontstructors the option to define a custom text string in their profiles always available and ready to go in the preview widget.
Sites like myfonts, of course, have even more advanced caches and variable input previews with access to RSS-feeds and the like (in addition to some truly stunning pangram collections). Matching that example may be too much to ask. Though how fun would it be if you could, say, plug the fs live feed directly into the preview widget :-)
2. Add a "Canvas Size Used for the Current Glyph" statusbar message.
to which meek replied:
I'm not sure how the canvas size display would be useful.
Well, certainly in the process of doing the most recent competition, I've found that this suggestion might actually be useful while FontStructing. :D
Here's the problem:
Who will get to know the password? Only the person who creates the account, or everybody, or what? Remember CollabRat? I didn't much like that because only the "best" FSers were chosen, and others were left out. If you want me to make the account, I would probably just keep the password to myself and almost never sign on as "forum" so it wouldn't be unfair. I would comment on the forums as demonics. That's what I suggest you do, Yautja, if you end up being the one to make the account.
Another thing I thought about is that you could write the topic title in the font in some basic pixel style for example, and keep the same style for all the topics, so it's more visible and it's not mistaken as a regular font.
This is just an opinion about your statement. Don't make it too serious guys ;)
It may be a bit inconvenient if people can't open new topics themselves, but sharing the password might be a bit risky.
I will almost never use the forum account, only to pose topics. See, if I were to let everyone know the password, it would be too messy and overrun by beginners asking How do I download fonts?or How do I make these angles?Then again, if I kept the account to myself, people might think it would be unfair. The last solution might also have people feeling that it is unfair: only invite a few select people. I think the best option is to keep it to myself and never use it to do anything else but announce the topics. Neurone, don't you think that top picks administered by anyone is unfair? And who would choose who gets to pick? I say we leave it as is. It isn't so much what meek likes as it is meek trying to choose the BEST FONTS. It's clear there are many opinions, and delving too deep into the topic could cause harm and leave people feeling angry. So I will create the account soon, and everyone just try to stay calm. Neurone, really no harm intended. We may not agree but let's try and keep the peace.
But, as i said above, it seems to not shock anyone but me here, so my voice has no absolutely no weight...
@demonics: I've another idea about the password:
You can share the password with private messages. And only for selected people, you can choose them, it's up to you.
@cable yes, but the people who weren't chosen may feel bad. I want to do something that is good for everyone.
Give me Coptic in Fontstruct
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