Color Competition

Dear FontStructors,

Spring is here and the flowers are a-blooming in every shade and hue, or so they tell me.
It’s time for the latest FontStruct Competition, and this time our theme is color*.

– Bermuda Triangles by four

For this competition, any FontStructor can design and enter up to three color FontStructions.

IMPORTANT: If you are NOT a patron, in order to access color, you must proactively enter this competition: Simply login and visit https://fontstruct.com/enter/color. Three empty color FontStructions will be created for you automatically. (Please do not create extra accounts in order to access additional color FontStructions. Such accounts will be deleted.)

To get an idea of how to work with color and layers, I recommend reading the original color blog post, and/or watch this amazing video by kassymkulov. Note that you can use a maximum of 8 different colors in a design.

The Brief

Very simple. We would like you to build one or more FontStructions which make good (creative/clever/appropriate) use of color. That’s it! You might want to take a look at our existing color fonts for inspiration.

When you’re done and ready to submit an entry, remember to tag it with “ColorComp”.

Competition Time Period

Thursday, 15th May 2025 – Friday 30th May, 2025

Competition Rules

1. You must be a registered FontStruct user.
2. Your submissions must make use of color/shade in some way
3. Your submission(s) must be posted and made “public” between 15th May 2025 and 10th June, 2025. Although you are encouraged to share your submission(s) at any time between these dates, your FontStruction submission(s) must be public (marked “share with everyone”) no later than 30th May, 2025 at 11pm PST. Additionally, your submission(s) must remain public at least until 10th June 2025 in order to give the judges enough time to review all qualifying entries.
4. Your submission(s) must be tagged with a “ColorComp” tag. (For fairness, during the competition time period, no FontStruction with the “ColorComp” tag will be awarded a “Staff Pick”.)
5. Your submission(s) must be downloadable. If your FontStruction cannot be downloaded, the submission will not be including in the judging.
6. Your submission must be a newly published FontStruction. Simply adding the “ColorComp” tag to an already published font is not allowed.
7. For each submission, you must post at least one sample image in the comments of the FontStruction.
8. FontStruct cloning is permitted but the judges will be looking for original work.
9. You may enter up to three FontStructions to the competition.
10. This is a friendly competition. Cheering, favoriting and fun banter is encouraged but cruel and uncivil behavior will not be tolerated.
11. No rules regarding licensing. You may choose any license you like for your FontStruction. (but it needs to be downloadable!)

Judging and announcing the winners

All qualifying FontStructions will by judged by FontStruct staff  between May 30th and June 10th. (We are still looking for a celebrity judge.)
Three prizewinners will be chosen.
One of these will be the FontStructors’ Favourite*.
One winner will be a ‘newcomer’ – i.e. someone who has never won a FontStruction competition prize in the past.
One winner will be chosen as an overall winner (this overall winner could be either the “FontStructor’s Favourite” or the “Newcomer”.)
Winners will be announced in a FontStruct Blog post on Tuesday June 10th 2025.

Prizes

The three winners can choose to receive either a T-shirt printed with a FontStruction glyph of their choice, or one year’s free “patron” status on FontStruct.

*FontStructors’ Favourite

The valid entry with the highest number of legitimate favourites (yes we check!) at 11pm PST on 30th May 2025 will be the FontStructor’s Favorite and one of the three prizewinners.

Questions?

If you have questions just add them as comments to this post.

Happy FontStructing!

*I normally write colour on this blog, but to avoid confusion, it will be color (no ‘u’) for the duration of this competition.

FontStruct would like to heartily thank our principal sponsors Glyphs and FontSelf, and our many FS Patrons for supporting FontStruct.