New Bricks. Kites, Shards, Fins and more!
News | Rob Meek (meek) | November 2nd, 2012
We activated 40 new bricks today. First up are eight gorgeous and gothic “Fin” bricks (above) as suggested by truth14ful. truth14ful also requested the four new “Kite” bricks …
… the 8 new “Shard” bricks …
… and 4 “Propeller” bricks.
Thanks for such a wonderful group of suggestions truth14ful! These are all simple and beautiful geometric shapes which logically complement the existing brick set. I don’t think any of them could be created with the current compositing or stacking options.
“House” Bricks
The so-called “house” bricks could be made as composite bricks, but it’s convenient not to have to do that. djnippa and others have been clamouring for house-shaped bricks for ages. Sorry its taken so long!
Extra Corners
Finally will.i.ૐ suggested these small corner bricks, and logic demands them!
All of the new bricks shown here were requested in the suggestions thread on the unofficial user forums. Thanks again to demonics for taking the initiative there.
Changing the brick palette (All Bricks and My Bricks)
Despite the growing number of bricks, we decided to keep the brick palette more or less as it is for now. It’s simple and does the job. But we have added a new option to resize the palette horizontally. This may help users who have a very large number of bricks in the “My Bricks” window to get an overview.
Happy FontStructing!
Yay, new bricks! I’ve been waiting it for long… Thanks meek :)
– cablecomputer — November 2, 2012 #
Joyous day, smiles on display; 40 new ways to say, Shall we go play? :)
– will.i.ૐ — November 2, 2012 #
What a wonderful morning! I’ve dreaming for some of these stunning bricks during years! Welcome!
– elmoyenique — November 2, 2012 #
Can’t wait to start using some of these bricks!
– four — November 2, 2012 #
New toys to play with – and it’s not even Christmas! Thanks a million Mr M for these and all the other work that you put in to make FS such a wonderful experience.
Just a small point, but I couldn’t see the new Corner bricks anywhere … maybe I am just having a Senior moment.
– p2pnut — November 2, 2012 #
Wow, thanks, this is great!
I don’t know why, but preview button in fontstructor isn’t working…
– architaraz — November 2, 2012 #
This is the first time I’ve seen new brick added! Whoopee!
– demonics — November 2, 2012 #
@architaraz – thanks for letting me know. I’m looking into it. UPDATE: should be fixed now. You may need to clear your browser cache.
– Rob Meek (meek) — November 2, 2012 #
And I’m glad you mentioned the FontStruct Suggestions page, thanks!
– demonics — November 2, 2012 #
@p2pnut – ah yes. I forgot to add the Corner bricks. They’ll be there in a few minutes. UPDATE the new corner bricks are there now.
– Rob Meek (meek) — November 2, 2012 #
Thanks Rob!
– will.i.ૐ — November 2, 2012 #
Heehee! I’m excite. ;P
– Rahi-Tak — November 2, 2012 #
so the new bricks are here :D
– Umbreon126 — November 2, 2012 #
Something’s wrong again. All fonts I’m trying to edit are disappearing, when fontstrustor loads, everything’s empty. I even tried creating new font, saved it, then after going to my downloads, preview displays nothing.
Thanks!
– architaraz — November 2, 2012 #
THANKS! I shall put these to splendid use!
– truth14ful — November 2, 2012 #
New brick!!! Great!!! Have to work faster. My exploration to “basic bricks” haven’t finish yet.
– BangDje — November 2, 2012 #
@architaraz Problems should be fixed now.
– Rob Meek (meek) — November 3, 2012 #
OMG! :D
– minidonut — November 3, 2012 #
Very nice and useful bricks. Thank you Rob.
– Frodo7 — November 3, 2012 #
^.^
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– Isaiah Garcia — November 3, 2012 #
yehaaaa thanks!!!
– Luan016 — November 4, 2012 #
The HOUSE shaped brick. YIIIPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEE ! It’s the icing on several of my larger designs. It was impossible to create at super small sizes. Time to go to work, and complete them to perfection. Also the spikes are brilliant.
– djnippa — November 4, 2012 #
Those additions will make creating new fonts with different edges so much easier, and naturally the fonts being built with these bricks will look slightly different.
Simple and useful shapes I felt had been missing.
What a great idea! Thanks to members for the suggestions and to Fontstruct for making them available.
– Aeolien — November 5, 2012 #
Have to try those bricks out at once :D
– CMunk — November 5, 2012 #
I too have imagined a few of these (kites and shards) as welcome additions, but the others (particularly fins) have taken me by surprise. Thanks!
– Chris — November 5, 2012 #
We all like new bricks, keep ’em coming!
– fontstructer101 — November 14, 2012 #
Wow. Thank you, Rob! :-)
– SquarePeg — November 14, 2012 #
I cant believe it…
I so much want to work on new ideas, but since i got an ipad im even MORE away from my pc. But this new bricks are a new motivation, totally :)
– kix — November 18, 2012 #
sort the tiles inside UI
its hard to find the right one quickly
– dg9870 — December 8, 2012 #
Thanks for the new siège de douche bricks style….. :-)
– dalejustice — January 3, 2013 #