Designer/engineer Rob Meek has created a new free font-building program called FontStruct, which lets users create fonts constructed from geometric shapes—you arrange the shapes ("tiles") on a grid by dragging and dropping, and you're pretty well good to go.What's especially interesting about this is that since FontStruct's been released to the public a little over a month ago, over 20 000 users have registered. 20 000! Are these users typographers, designers, 12-year-old video game addicts? It's amazing how accessible font creation (albeit very amateur font creation) has become.
Check out the introductory video here.
[image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/2386500152/in/pool-fontstruct/]
No comments:
Post a Comment