{"id":3530,"date":"2018-10-19T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:28:05","slug":"fontstruct-goes-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/fontstruct-goes-open-source\/","title":{"rendered":"FontStruct goes open source!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haxe-shariken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3531\" src=\"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/haxe-shariken.jpg\" alt=\"Haxe Shariken\" width=\"705\" height=\"566\" data-wp-pid=\"3531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear FontStructors,<\/p>\n<p>From the very beginning, FontStruct has tried to be easy-to-use and avowedly non-technical for its font-designing users, but of course there is a great deal of technology behind our platform, and today we\u2019re open-sourcing a small, but important part of it: the core of our font generation module.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons for open-sourcing this code. It offers other developers an opportunity to contribute to the font-generation side of FontStruct. It also offers others a new tool to assist them in building their own font-generation tools.<\/p>\n<p>But the main motivation for sharing the code is the desire to give something back \u2013 in the form of publicity and a software library \u2013 to an open-source project (<a href=\"https:\/\/haxe.org\/\">Haxe<\/a>) which has been extremely helpful to us in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in software development and FontStruct, please <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@fontstruct\/the-joy-of-haxe-84f933f4b859\">read more about our new open-source library and the some of the history of FontStruct\u2019s development on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy FontStructing!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 your FontStruct team<\/p>\n<h2>Acknowledgements:<\/h2>\n<p>Many thanks, as always, to our current sponsors:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/\">Google Fonts<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphsapp.com?source=fontstruct\">Glyphs App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FontStructors, From the very beginning, FontStruct has tried to be easy-to-use and avowedly non-technical for its font-designing users, but of course there is a great deal of technology behind our platform, and today we\u2019re open-sourcing a small, but important part of it: the core of our font generation module. There are several reasons for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}