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Fontstruct
crowdsourcing typography
Created by San Francisco-based Typographers Fontshop the community-driven FontStruct portal lets you create, exchange and modify fonts.
FontStruct, which was opened to the public in April, is a free, online tool that lets users quickly and easily create fonts by arranging geometrical shapes in a grid pattern, much like tiles or bricks. Working one letter at a time, users add and remove shapes including blocks and dots to achieve a look they like. Once they're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. Users can keep their "FontStructions" private, or they can share them with the FontStruct community for discussion, rating and downloading. They can also display them on other websites or blogs through the FontStruct widget. Several Creative Commons license options are available to allow varying degrees of sharing. The site is supported through links to San Francisco-based FontShop for sales and downloads of its professional, non-modular fonts.
I didn't really have a chance to play with their Fontstruction interface, but the whole idea behind their brick based font creation interface seems very interesting.
[via Springwise]
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