Yea, I found that yesterday on stumble upon I’ve yet to try it out. Let me know what you think about it.

I love it, so simple and so fast. I’m about to use FontLab for the first time next monday and this looks so much more simple than everything I’ve been reading up on FontLab. This is like Paint! Wicked!

Tom, I too love FontStruct, but it is limited to modular fonts. Even FontShop acknowledges this at the bottom of each page in the Gallery (“Some fonts you can’t FontStruct.”) Don’t miss out on the chance to learn or use FontLab; I’m sure you won’t regret it.

It’s neat. But, yea, not a replacement as much as just another option in the toolbox.

I’ve been playing with it for a while now, and it’s definitely fun. It’s also more robust than I expected. However, it’s a modular font builder, so you have to think on a grid. Fontstruct’s font exporting is very easy, so you could whip up a simple all caps font in a few days and then wrap it into a project (which is nice for those of us without FontLab).

I’m playing with a blackletter for fun. It’s called Faketur. Very much a work-in-progress, but I’m getting a kick out of working within the constraints of the grid. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is controlling the spacing.

Here is another similar tool... been around for years at this point:

http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html

The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is controlling the spacing.

Chris, I’m not sure you can control the spacing (between letters as well as between words), but I think Rob Meek and Co. might be working on improving it — I read a comment somewhere to that effect, but I can’t remember for which font. :-/

By the way, I love Faketur!

Yeah Chris your font is awesome!
I’ve been playing with it this morning as well. I like it, but wish for a little more freedom. It’s in beta so I assume they’ll make some improvements.

man the voting is nasty tho! seems people vote your stuff down just so they can get ahead of you in the ratings. >^p

I played around with Fontstruct when it was in beta and did Boxy 1 and Boxy 2, which are both based on “fonts” I designed in college (about 1975) on graph paper. It’s really a lot of fun. Reminds me of making bitmap fonts with Altsys’ Fontastic, but with the twist that the bits don’t have to be squares or fill the grid spaces.

It looks like a potentially useful tool for making pixel fonts. I haven’t tried it yet, because one aspect makes me uneasy. Even after reading the relevant documents over again, it’s not entirely clear to me, but it looks as if using this tool to execute a design means giving up the rights to the design. There are some vague suggestions that a “fontstructed” font belongs to its creator, yet FontShop appears to claim the right to dictate what kind of license the creator may and may not choose to distri