The forum for all suggestions and ideas for the future of FontStruct.

A place to post your FS-related ideas.

The more I use FS, the more I generate ideas. Some of them don't get published, and some of them are useful enough to pass on. This page is a home for those kinds of ideas. I'll probably be posting FS art and alternative glyph designs here... you may post whatever you like, as long as it's FS-related.

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Collection of linear-interpolated circle attempts, or simply faux-Bezier circles and other curvature related materials.

This toolset basically is collection of pre-made fake circles and curves in numerous different sizes to make ones workflow easier. It could also simply serve as a educative tool that demonstrates the basic FontStruct technique used for making fake curves and circles.

Initially I intended this to be much more complete, but it is simply too much work, and would take forever to get published at once.

Please don't expect this to be perfect, a lot gets fairly close to the "real-deal".

But keep in mind that they remain raw approximations of their true Bezier counterparts. I will try to improve whatever is needed as time progresses, as well as most likely add more stuff.

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I hope you like it so far,

Feel free to copy, re-use, improve or even destroy!

enjoy!

What better way to celebrate our bright future than pushing a whole creative medium forward? Introducing Brick Patching – a combinatoric approach to constructing hyper-tunable curved and angular modular forms.

Stay tuned to this space; *eventually I will describe this highly useful hack and fully document the technique.

Upgrade your gray matter cuz one day it may matter.

Wanna see a magic trick? Clone this font and go into edit mode.

"A cell is merely 7 feet long and barely 5 feet wide." A poor translation of the famous lines of the Dutch poet Jan Campert. The same measurements hold for glyphs in Metafontstruct. Metafontstruct is not really a font, it is a concept. It is a fontstruct within fontstruct, one could say; or it is a new fontstruct, with even more constraints than the one we're all so font of. You can use it in your word processor to create the glyph you like on the spot. When you're finished you press the spacebar to create the next glyph. The keys QWER ASD ZXCV contain possibilities for the left side of the glyph, TYUIOP GHJKL BNM for the right side, and F;',./ for the middle. The capitals and numerals are just some examples of glyphs you can create. There's freedom within these boundaries, as we're all experiencing in these covidiotic times. If I may give another poor translation of a Dutch poem, by Jules Deelder, a famous poet from my home town who died last year: "Within the bounds the possibilities are just as unbounded as beyond." Not enough freedom for you, looking for another brick? Feel free to clone!

This is an unofficial forum I have made for FontStruct tutorials and educational materials. Want to know how to do something, or how to make a certain style or effect? This is the place to ask. I am not part of staff, and am far from being the most advanced user on here, but will pass on whatever I can. 

I have been writing an FS video series for some time, but it has proven very time-consuming to make the series as comprehensive (and as high-quality) as I would like. It has also occurred to me that I can teach a lot through simple text and graphics. This is my attempt to create a knowledge hub for FS where all the good stuff is in one place. If you make a tutorial or expand on mine in some way, you're welcome to post those here as well.

Please keep the discussion topical. This page is about tutorials, requests and discussions for them, etc. Idea Soup is more of a free-for-all and anything FS-related is accepted there. Idea Soup is also a good place to discuss tutorial ideas, since we can work out exactly what needs to be taught there without clogging the comment section here. (There is a limit on the number of comments this page can have, right?)

This page is open to users of all languages, but we may have to use Google Translate to answer you. Sorry in advance for any bad translations :D

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Related Forum:FontStruct Idea Soup

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