FontStruct

I just thought I needed to share this new service from FontShop that I’ve been playing with a lot recently. It’s called FontStruct and if you have any interest in typography and/or type design I’d say it’s time to check this out. I’ll preface by saying that if you’re trying to design the next Helvetica, you’ll quickly hit the ceiling on what FontStruct can do, but for experimentation and basic letterform construction, it is a lot of fun, and pretty straight forward.

I’ve spent some time today putting together my own pixel font. Reminds me of the days when K10K was what web designers strived for. But anyway, I’m calling it Neuescreen. I had Wim Crouwel’s new alphabet in mind when constructing the lowercase letterforms. You can go download it and have fun with it. I’ll probably give it a few more edits and hopefully make a poster/type specimen with it.

Anyway, here are some previews of Neuescreen:

Note: I’m finding that this font is working best in Photoshop with Anti-Aliasing set to Crisp at 8pt. Kerning gets a bit off with Anti-Aliasing set to None.