{"id":1057,"date":"2010-04-01T01:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2011-01-10T00:45:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T07:45:33","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My, how you\u2019ve grown!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On April 1st 2008, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop <\/a>launched a free, online platform for building modular fonts called FontStruct. Over the intervening two years a community of over 270,000 typographic bricklayers has come together to create, share, download and discuss almost 260,000 modular type designs. Thanks to all of you for participating in this fantastic project so far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We want FontStruct to continue improving by adding new features and creative possibilities, and we&#8217;re currently preparing a <strong><em>significant <\/em><\/strong>update to the FontStructor font editor. We hope to release this update at some point this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more-->The Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To provide some entertainment in the meantime, we&#8217;re releasing a new, fun way to experience the amazing diversity of FontStructions: <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/wall\">The Wall<\/a>.\u00a0 This is an experimental project, so please be patient, particularly while the wall is preparing itself, and forgive the occasional glitch and eccentricity. Before anyone asks, you can&#8217;t feed in custom text to the Wall at the moment \u2014 we&#8217;re not sure how our servers are going to react to the load \u2014 but I can, so here&#8217;s a little celebratory mosaic of 2s (click on it if you want the full size image 927 \u00d7 10226 px)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wall.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1059\" title=\"A mosaic of 2s\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2010\/03\/wall_small_2.png\" alt=\"wall_small\" width=\"464\" height=\"5113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/2010\/04\/01\/happy-birthday\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/uploads\/2010\/04\/wall_teaser3.png\" alt=\"The FontStruct Wall\" title=\"The FontStruct Wall\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px\"\/><\/a>We celebrate two years of free, modular, font design with FontStruct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}