Selknam font created with FontStruct

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I ran across this very cool font on the Behance Network a couple weeks ago. It caught my eye again today, and I started to read the description and was surprised to learn that it was created with FontStruct, a free online type design tool! The font, Selknam, is the work of Chilean designer JuanPablo Meza Recabarren. His inspiration was the Selk'nam or Onas, an indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego (now extinct) and their initiatory rites for adolescents. I'm not sure from the description (my Spanish is not that good) whether the type design is based on tatoos or on something more subtle from the initiatory rites themselves. In any case, it's an intriguing design, and makes me want to experiment with FontStruct! For more samples of Selknam and info (in Spanish), please visit: http://jpmezarecabarren.wordpress.com/  For more information about FontStruct and examples of what it can do, please visit: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Font Magazine 007

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Font Magazine is a beautifully designed publication from FontShop, all about type. It's available free in print form, viewable online, and also as a downloadable PDF. Issue 7 features type foundries: Porchez Typofonderie, Sudtipos, TypeTogether, PampaType, and Suitcase Type Foundry. It also has an interesting article about the free, do-it-yourself online type design tool, FontStruct, along with some amazing examples of fonts created using it. As world-renowned type designer, Erik Spikermann comments, "FontStruct shows how easy it is to play around with type, and how difficult it is to make real type."

Font Magazine 007 is available, along with earlier issues, on the FontShop website: http://bit.ly/wSdw3