Typography Tuesday

Because the world loves social media, and because the world needs more creative typography, and simply because it's darned neato, FontShop has come up with a site called FontStruct.

While it doesn't necessarily roll off the tongue, the combination of the words "font" and "construct" get the point across: this is a site where you can construct fonts. (Or perhaps this is a term for being bludgeoned by a slab serif? As in: "I was FontStruct." Maybe not.) This is what the site has to say for itself:

"FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop.

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."

Proof that the grid system is far more versatile than it sounds, and that limitation begets creativity, FontStruct already boasts over 9,340 fonts available for download. Mind you, that's just the number of public fonts, not the total number of fonts created.

Pretty spiffy.