{"id":917,"date":"2009-02-17T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2009-02-17T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T13:47:26","slug":"fabricating-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Fabricating fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I discovered a very useful site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/\">Fontstruct<\/a>. It has easy-to-use tools for constructing fonts; you can share your fonts in the online font gallery, though you don\u2019t have to; and you can also download and edit fonts created by other users of the site. Once you\u2019ve signed up to the site, which is free, you can start making fonts. The finished fonts can be saved on the site and downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve started constructing a font for an alphabet losely based on British Sign Language finger spelling that I\u2019ve been playing with for a while. I\u2019ll post it on Omniglot once I\u2019m satisfied with it. This may take quite a while though. <\/p>\n<p>[Update] My finger spelling-based alphabet, which I named &#8216;Fingers&#8217;, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/fingers.php\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I discovered a very useful site &#8211; Fontstruct. It has easy-to-use tools for constructing fonts; you can share your fonts in the online font gallery, though you don\u2019t have to; and you can also download and edit fonts created by other users of the site. Once you\u2019ve signed up to the site, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}