Before the year ends there is still time for a couple of last minute new items:<\/p>\n
As many of you know, a new version of the FontMortar \u2013 FontStruct’s font-generating software \u2013 is online since last week. There were some initial glitches with spacing and corrupted\u00a0download files, but with help of many reports from FontStructors all problems have been fixed.<\/p>\n
The main purpose of this update was to make font generation more efficient and save processor effort and time, consequently reducing server\u00a0costs. We can now also proudly say that FontStruct’s carbon footprint is much smaller.<\/p>\n
Font generation on FontStruct works as before, but a lot<\/em> faster and more powerful: FontMortar should now handle those huge FontStructions which couldn’t be downloaded before.<\/p>\n If you happen to be the proud creator of one of such\u00a0GigaStructions<\/em>: please give it another try and let us know if they are working now.<\/p>\n In November I had the opportunity to teach a workshop using FontStruct at the HfG Schw\u00e4bisch Gm\u00fcnd<\/a> in Germany. During one week 14 students designed their own screen fonts using FontStruct. It was a great experience: observing FontStruct in action in a classroom\u00a0was very valuable, and the final results were very, very good.<\/p>\nArticle about FontStruct workshop<\/h3>\n