Brick by brick: News about FontStruct

Building a fine FontStruction can be satisfying. Installing it and creating a sample image in your favorite layout software is exciting. But perhaps the greatest moment of all is when your FontStruction is set free from the monitor and finds its way into a real-world application. As FontStruct grows we are receiving more and more reports of FontStructions in use.

Three FontStructions on a huge LED Display

Last week the Technical University in Darmstadt, Germany revealed its “Welcome Platform”, a new, central forum and entrance point for students, staff, guests and the general public. A permanent part of the building is a huge LED-Display, almost 16 metres in length and on that display, three original FontStructions! They were designed by Daniel Schöps for Fuenfwerken Design AG You can see and read more on Fontblog, or if you’re German’s rusty, you can try a Google translation. View and download the FontStructions here. There are many great FontStructions inspired by LED and LCD display fonts, but it’s wonderful to see someone going the other way and designing an original one for a real client. Check out the hanging numerals.

Thanks to Jürgen Siebert from FontShop Germany for the tip and the blog post.

FontStructions you can pick up and hold

Other known examples of FontStructions in extra-digital use include Afrojet’s wonderful  Sawhorse beermats. Even the heraldic graphics are a dingbats FontStruction:

Then there’s Font Fairy’s ingenious popup FontStruction “Solly PopTab” and the rubber stamps created for the Peecso Typographic project by nelloz. In the FontStruct Flickr Pool I even noticed a FontStruction being used as part of a knitting pattern:

Any more?

If you use (or spot) your own or another designer’s FontStruction in a print or otherwise non-screen-based project please upload a photo and let us know.

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