Författare: Nyhetsuppläsaren STG

FontStruct is a wonderful free tool for creating usable, modular typefaces. Sometimes however you may find yourself reaching its limits. If you want control over kerning, vertical metrics, OpenType features or cubic béziers you need to reach for an additional tool. Until now there was just one way to do this: You download your FontStruction as a TrueType font and then edit that font in the desktop font editor of your choice.

This week we’re introducing a great new option for Mac users in partnership with the guys from Glyphs.app.

Fortsätt läsa FontStruct New Feature: Export to Glyphs

FontStruct continues to be used to introduce students to the process of typographic creation in schools, colleges and universities all over the world.

This summer, the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin is hosting the exhibition ‘ON-TYPE: Texts on Typography’. For the supporting programme, Bernard Stein and Florian Hardwig organized a special event about teaching type design. They invited three type designers to present their respective approach to teaching. On July 24th, Martina Flor, Martin Wenzel and Dan Reynolds talked about their preferred methods and tools.

Fortsätt läsa FontStructions from HBK Braunschweig at the Bauhaus

We added three new licensing options to FontStruct today:

1. The FontStruct License
2. The FontStruct Non-Commercial License
3. An All Rights Reserved “No Download” Option

Fortsätt läsa New Licensing Options

 

Last month, when we challenged you to emulate handwritten scripts using only the grid and bricks of FontStruct, it could be argued that we contradicted the very nature of modular type. But we’ve learned through experience — and four other competitions — that this tool is limited only by the imagination of our FontStructors. As we expected, many of you rose to this difficult challenge. It was tricky for the judges, Rob Meek and myself, to pick winners from the 56 entries, many of which were quite innovative, original, and appealing. But after comparing notes (and a bit of cheerleading here and there) we agreed on three clear champions in the Connected Script Competition.

And the winners are…

Fortsätt läsa Connected Script Competition Results

The FontStruct community has proven that its members can breathe life into the grid, make the organic from the static, and push modularity to its creative limits. That’s why we have no qualms in assigning you with a formidable challenge for the next FontStruct competition: scripts!

Fortsätt läsa Competition: Connected Script