FontStruct Lets Build a Font Today!!!

Fontstruct - Create your own font today!

Fontstruct is a website that has a web application called the FontStructor.  Which enables anyone to create a font!

 

         "FontStruct is a free online font-building tool, devised and developed for FontShop International by Rob Meek.

The heart of FontStruct is the FontStructor, a web-application that lets anyone quickly and easily build fonts using basic geometric shapes in a grid — just like tiles or bricks. Fonts created with the FontStructor are called FontStructions. They can be downloaded as TrueType fonts and used in Mac or Windows applications.

More than a tool, FontStruct is a vibrant online type-design community. Type-design enthusiasts from all over the world use the FontStructor to experiment with letter shapes and to design fonts, and who give each other comments online on the FontStruct website. They are the FontStructors, the soul of FontStruct.

For non-FontStructors, FontStruct is a source of fresh fonts available under flexible, liberal CreativeCommons licenses.

Finally, for educators, FontStruct is an ideal environment to teach the basics of type design. The brick principle and the simplified, easy-to-use interface of the FontStructor help students to overcome the complexity inherent to type-design and focus on the most important aspects first."

Fontstruct is an incredibly addicting program allowing you to create your own fonts or maybe just something to make your own wingdings in.  It's very simple to use, the more you use it the more you begin to understand it.  It works on a grid and every letter, number, and symbol has its own area for the user to create, edit, view their creations.


This is an amazing web application and I see it opening many doors in hte future.  The basic joe shmo wont have to always look on the web for that awesome font and then be disappointed because they have to pay an arm. leg, and their first born for a font.  Now they can make it themselves.

If anyone has any questions about FontStruct just let me know and I will try my hardest to answer your question.

~ Amber B.