New Download formats: WOFF2 and COLR.

Dear FontStructors,

A small, tardy birthday gift to celebrate FontStruct’s recent 17th birthday: Today we’re adding support for two new download formats to FontStruct: WOFF2 – the current standard webfont format – and COLR v0 – the colour font format with the broadest software support, much broader than SVG Truetype, which was all we offered until now.

The headline for this blog post is not a GIF. It’s a font! (kd loopin by kassymkulov): a WOFF2 webfont with COLR. You’ll notice that it’s possible to customize the font colours with COLR fonts. You can even animate the palettes. Also, because it’s a webfont, you can embed it and try it out directly in your browser. Click on the headline and give it a go!

You’ll find the new download formats on the download page for each FontStruction e.g. zeeventeen eye/FS. (COLR only for colour fonts obviously).

Creating colour fonts will remain patron-only for the forseeable future, BUT we will soon run a colour competition for which all FontStructors will be able to design in colour.

Clockwise from top left: kd pirog by kassymkulov, bulbambulAI3630i by jirinvk, zupra 3D eYe/FS by elmoyenique, and priosma by four

Special thanks as always to our patrons who support work on new features such as this one, as well as the costs of running and maintaining FontStruct. And many thanks also to our two generous sponsors Glyphs and Fontself – wonderful people creating excellent and unique font creation software.

Happy FontStructing!