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Fontstruct by Fontshop
Fontstruct is a font building application that lets you design your own fonts. You paint with ‘bricks’ into a grid. The interface is quite similar to pixel editing or image editing software, with quite similar but more simplistic tools. You built letters up one at a time, and it’s all very simple and intuitive to use, if a little visually flat. Once you have designed a true type font is generated and published on the site, allowing you to share your creation.
While now where near as powerful as dedicated font generation applications, the gallery of fonts made on the site is quite impressive, and it’s evident that while being simple, the application does allow you to create very unique and fun typefaces. I like xtrude myself.
Overall, it’s a fun little app for a while but not particularly useful. The execution was pretty effective, but nothing to write home about. Imagine if this site had come out a few years ago when absolutely everyone was pixel font mad!
































