Comments on: DIY: Fonts

By: WWF uses the hive | The Hunting Dynasty

WWF uses the hive | The Hunting Dynasty — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:45:03 +0000

[...] that generally reduce the friction of designing and consuming. Lego’s create-your-own is the oft cited example. Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything [...]

By: Venkat

Venkat — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:39:01 +0000

Converting your own handwriting into a font has long been a practice among professional comic book artists, for lettering purposes. I thought of doing so myself…

But then there is much to be said for professionally designed fonts. Google ‘helvetica movie’ to see one beautiful example documented.

By: Bob LeDrew

Bob LeDrew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:21:11 +0000

Curmudgeon moment beginning:

Why FontStruct? Because … there just weren’t enough fonts yet.

I think the idea’s interesting enough, but I’m having nightmare visions of a letter-by-letter version of early desktop publishing or web design efforts that would end up in the dictionary under either “clash” or “gaudy” (not Goudy).

Can’t we just use one or two of the approximately 5 BILLION fonts that already exist?

Curmudgeon moment ended.