{"id":2758,"date":"2015-04-01T06:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2015-06-11T05:32:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T12:32:16","slug":"happy-7th-birthday-fontstruct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/happy-7th-birthday-fontstruct\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 7th Birthday FontStruct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"All the sevens\" href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/all-the-sevens.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2769\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/sevens-detail.gif\" alt=\"sevens-detail\" width=\"485\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">Click the image to see 256 choice \u201cseven\u201d glyphs from the past seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dear FontStructors,<\/p>\n<p>FontStruct was <a title=\"The First Three Weeks\" href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2008\/04\/22\/the-first-three-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\">launched<\/a> to the public on the first of April 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1,047,435<\/strong> users,\u00a0<strong>933,072<\/strong> font designs and <strong>1,286,686<\/strong> downloads later we now have a public gallery showing\u00a0<strong>37,391<\/strong> FontStructions. Thanks and congratulations to everyone who&#8217;s contributed over the past seven years. Extra special thanks as always to our main sponsor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a>\u00a0whose support\u00a0continues to make all of this possible.<\/p>\n<p>The FontStruct community has built a magnificent archive of modular typefaces over the past seven years and it deserves a fitting showcase, so\u00a0today we&#8217;re launching an\u00a0enhanced version\u00a0of the <a title=\"Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/gallery\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a> pages to make them faster to load, easier to use, and hopefully more attractive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/new-gallery-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2766\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/new-gallery-detail.jpg\" alt=\"new-gallery-detail\" width=\"485\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">Too wide to illustrate in this slim blog layout!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biggest change is a new, wider layout\u00a0with much larger image previews of the\u00a0FontStructions themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/autocomplete-detail.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2764\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/autocomplete-detail.gif\" alt=\"autocomplete-detail\" width=\"485\" height=\"496\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"small\">The new search box suggests tags and offers direct links to matching FontStructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, we&#8217;ve added\u00a0support for search suggestions.\u00a0We&#8217;ve also tried to optimise the metadata (the information shown on the right next to each FontStruction), so for example we&#8217;re now showing\u00a0license information in the gallery for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The new large previews are drawn\u00a0by a new\u00a0piece of software called the FontStruct Renderer. You&#8217;ll notice that they&#8217;re darker and \u201cheavier\u201d than the old previews. We&#8217;ll continue to optimise and improve the new\u00a0renderer but it gives us much more flexibility in how we preview FontStructions, and it\u00a0allows us to stop using Adobe Flash on Gallery pages. We hope to stop using Flash anywhere on the site\u00a0eventually (yes even for the FontStructor).<\/p>\n<p>We will\u00a0also continue overhauling\u00a0other parts of the website. \u201cMy FontStruct\u201d\u00a0font listings and Favorites are\u00a0very similar to the main Gallery pages, so they are likely to be next in line\u00a0for an update.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know what you think about the new Gallery\u00a0by commenting on this post.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and happy FontStructing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/happy-7th-birthday-fontstruct\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2015\/04\/big-7-1692511.gif\" alt=\"Happy 7th Birthday FontStruct\" title=\"Happy 7th Birthday FontStruct\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\"\/><\/a><\/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-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}