{"id":797,"date":"2010-01-29T01:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T08:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/?p=797"},"modified":"2010-01-29T01:18:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T08:18:28","slug":"welcome-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2010\/01\/29\/welcome-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone. I think it&#8217;s going to be an exciting one for FontStruct.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the latest stats, hot from a bulging database:<\/p>\n<p>238,849 FontStructions<br \/>\n244,930 registered FontStructors<br \/>\n400,796 Downloads,<br \/>\n1,437,963 Glyphs<\/p>\n<p>This vast and rambling edifice just keeps on growing. If you&#8217;re FontStructing, you&#8217;re part of a phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>As you may have noticed, a new, yet familiar hand has been at work at FontStruct over the last few weeks \u2013 selecting top picks, featuring exceptional FontStructions and tweeting like a man with a beak and feathers.\u00a0 We&#8217;re delighted to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/afrojet\" target=\"_blank\">designer<\/a> and long-time FontStructor John Skelton AKA <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/afrojet\">Afrojet<\/a> joined the FontStruct staff at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/afrojet\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-810\" title=\"John Skelton\" style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2010\/01\/skelton3.jpg\" alt=\"John Skelton\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be working with the FontStruct community, <a href=\"http:\/\/fontshop.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontShop<\/a> and myself to continue to improve FontStruct and to raise the profile of the project and your work. If you haven&#8217;t done so already I recommend reading <a href=\"http:\/\/fontfeed.com\/archives\/focus-on-fontstructors-%E2%80%93-john-skelton-afrojet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yves Peter&#8217;s fascinating interview with John<\/a> over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fontfeed.com\" target=\"_blank\">FontFeed<\/a>. It was the first in the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/fontfeed.com\/archives\/tag\/focus-on-fontstructors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Focus on FontStructors<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>Afrojet will also be posting on this blog about what&#8217;s happening in and around FontStructia, so welcome to the far side of the bricks John, and watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year everyone. I think it&#8217;s going to be an exciting one for FontStruct. Here are the latest stats, hot from a bulging database: 238,849 FontStructions 244,930 registered FontStructors 400,796 Downloads, 1,437,963 Glyphs This vast and rambling edifice just keeps on growing. If you&#8217;re FontStructing, you&#8217;re part of a phenomenon. As you may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}