[dot design]

Here is great site that enables you to easily create typefaces/fonts out of grided shapes which it then creates in to usable TrueType fonts. The fonts that are created can be used in Mac or Windows applications.

Its a great tool for graphic designers or design students to play with. If you choose to share the fonts these are covered by different Creative Commons licenses.

There is a video explaining the process of building a font, on first viewing it seemed as though Fontstruct had limited possibilities in terms of variety, but on closer inspection there are quite a few options and different tools, shapes to use.

It is grid based so there are certain types of fonts that just aren’t achievable but worth a play!

FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts

[alpoynter]

Thanks that will be very handy for something I'm working on at the moment

[dot design]

Great, let us know how you get on with it, I'd be interested to see your results.

[miskellaneous]

Thanks for that great link i will be certainly checking it out!

[Xenonsoft]

Cheers DD. I've got a college project where I'm developing my own font and may give this a try.

[promostamper]

thanks for the link have just joined do you know if it does images which i can add to it or part of the font?