FontStruct: Everybody's a Typographer?

I was a tad excited to see that there's an online software/interactive system that allows you to develop types without downloading some Trial version of a huge software onto your system. I personally don't know much about Typography, I admire it, and I think if I delve into it I'll be hugely interested yet I still didn't get to this point - still an illustration sucker.

The website FontShop, one of the leading Fonts/Typography networks out there created FontStruct - a website that allows you to build, share and download fonts created using "FontStructor"; Developed by Rob Meek.

So I went ahead, signed up to the site and started fiddling around until to my surprise I see that they support a number of different languages/letter sets. And ta-da! There lies "Arabic". I clicked on it and started looking at the set of letters they had, though it included characters which would never be used in Arabic scripts but still, I quite liked it! Though some characters didn't show up to me.

Here's my trial, but then to find out I've added a hamza to a hamza-less Alef! Forgiveness, I'm erasing the hamza!

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I think it's quite revolutionary to be honest, I'm clueless if such projects been created before (and if so, please inform me) but I really like the whole feel to FontStruct and I believe it's a good

platform for budding Typographers - and even those who just have general interest - to develop and get good exposure.

Go ahead, fiddle with it, and make it your daily meal of font creation :)