{"id":2910,"date":"2016-12-20T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T08:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2017-01-16T01:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T08:23:26","slug":"there-is-a-season-kern-kern-kern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2016\/12\/20\/there-is-a-season-kern-kern-kern\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a season &#8211; kern, kern, kern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FontStructors,<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to everyone\u00a0for all your wonderful designs and contributions to FontStruct in 2016.<\/p>\n<h3>A gift from FontShop<\/h3>\n<p>With our 1.3+ million registered users, 1.3+ million font designs and 34+ million glyphs, FontStruct takes a lot of looking after. There are servers to pay and care for, development to be done, emails to be answered, bricks to be dusted\u00a0and\u00a0stacked.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, FontStruct remains a completely free service, and this is all due to the generosity of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a>, our founding sponsor. We&#8217;re thrilled\u00a0to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a>, our founding sponsor, has confirmed their continuing support for the project through\u00a02017.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a>!<\/p>\n<h3>A New Feature: Kerning<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;re also delighted to launch a brand new, expert feature to the FontStructor with the introduction of kerning support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kerning-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2913\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/kerning-1.png\" alt=\"kerning-1\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"small\">(Image shows <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructions\/show\/1327345\/zynesthesia-eye-fs\">zynesthesia<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/198352\/elmoyenique\">elmoyenique<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div class=\"small\"><\/div>\n<p>I would like to stress that many FontStructions really do <em>not<\/em> need to be kerned, and that everyone should continue to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/help\/39\/advanced_topics\/adjusting_spacing\">other spacing controls<\/a> as far as possible to achieve the\u00a0letter spacing they\u2019re aiming for. Nevertheless, kerning can solve some of those frustrating\u00a0spacing problems with particular letter combinations, and help make your designs more attractive and usable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/help\/72\/advanced_topics\/kerning\">Read more about the new feature<\/a>\u00a0in the help.<\/p>\n<h3>And Finally<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/happy-holiday-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2923\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/happy-holiday-2016.png\" alt=\"happy-holiday-2016\" width=\"700\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"small\">(Image shows <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructions\/show\/1288715\/sardinian-tapestries\">Sardinian Tapestries<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/144605\/k_type\">SuperAtic Team (K_Type)<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructions\/show\/547486\/some_xmas_balls\">Some Xmas Balls<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/511423\/cinzana\">Cinzana<\/a>)<\/div>\n<p>Wherever and however you celebrate it, I wish everyone a happy holiday season . I\u2019m greatly\u00a0looking forward to more FontStructing adventures in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s FontStruct!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FontStructors, Many thanks to everyone\u00a0for all your wonderful designs and contributions to FontStruct in 2016. A gift from FontShop With our 1.3+ million registered users, 1.3+ million font designs and 34+ million glyphs, FontStruct takes a lot of looking after. There are servers to pay and care for, development to be done, emails to [&hellip;]<\/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-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}