(Chuck Anderson, eat your heart out!)

While traditional type-designers have been using programs such as FontLab or Fontographer (goes way back to 1985) to design their typefaces over recent years, FontShop has released a clever web-based font building tool geared towards the non-classical/casual type-designer called FontStruct (devised and developed for FontShop FSI by Rob Meek) .

FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. It’s worth taking a peek at their intro video.

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Photos by Dina Shestakova (2009).

Although, this video is from January, it’s completely AMAZING.