Font crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing penetrates into different unimaginable areas. Take, for example, the development of fonts. Previously, this was done by specialized companies or by forcedly retraining designers, such as employees of the Lebedev studio . As a result, we get either a closed product, inaccessible to the design community, or prohibitively expensive. The typical cost of a commercial font is around $ 30-40.

Thank God, now everything is changing thanks to crowdsourcing. Font development has proven to be an excellent application for the UGC concept, as shown by the example of the online font editor and the FontStruct service.

The FontStruct font editor was released in April. The program, with the help of which anyone can easily and quickly create their own font, was so liked by users that during the first days of operation the site barely coped with the load. To date, users have drawn almost 2000 fonts of various types and purposes. All DIY files are completely free to download.
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Graphic editor FontStruct is very easy to use and designed for a single task - pixel-by-pixel drawing fonts. The program works directly through the browser. The site has an extensive gallery of ready-made fonts. On the organization of ratings, polls and comments, it is somewhat similar to YouTube.

By the way, FontStruct is not the only catalog of free fonts on the Internet. For example, on DaFont.com you can find links to more than 8,000 free DIY files, which are also divided into thematic categories.

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