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A modular colour font inspired by toy bricks and soft plastic textures, suggested to use in large sizes.
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Info:Created on 28th May 2025. Last edited on Tue, 16th June.
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A modular colour font inspired by toy bricks and soft plastic textures, suggested to use in large sizes.
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Softstruct is a cheerful display font that captures the tactile charm of children’s construction toys. Designed on a pixel grid, it uses rounded letterforms that resemble foam or rubber pieces, each perforated with uniform circular “studs” that echo toy bricks or pegboards. Though rooted in pixel structure, the glyphs are softened with subtle curves and shading, giving them a squishy, almost rubbery appearance.
Perfect for kids' projects, game titles, and playful branding.
Looks pretty nice, but the space character feels like it's a bit too wide. I wonder if it could be reduced by one peg?
@Bryndan W. Meyerholt (BWM): Thank you for your comment and vote. It is certainly possible to change the width of the space. The general rule is that it should be as wide as the letter i — here, it is three pegs. Actually, I've increased the space by one peg to have a more comfortable separation of words. I might add a glyph with a single column of pegs to allow users to set spaces incrementally at will.
The new narrow space glyph is on the VERTICAL LINE slot (U+007C), easy to access on standard keyboards.
The use of the basic bricks to create something exceptional like this is a testament to your vision, creativity and skill. Excellent work as always.
@thalamic: Thank you. Well spotted. This fontstruction only uses nine basic bricks and no fancy techniques such as filters or nudge. I think the selection of colours was crucial to achieving the final visual effect.
A mix of lego and tetris of sorts. Useful and lovely.
i cant download in .colr format
Wow! Masterly, as usual, dear Maestro!
Very tactile, a typographic toy that I would like to play with.
Great idea, reminds me the letterboard I used to have as kid. The letters were to tear from plastic sprue and press on thin rails on the boards.
@peter i remember having one of those
Very playful font, well done.
Simple complexity. Simplexity. Well played, Frodo
Simple, but effective.
Congratulations on this well-deserved TP, Maestro!
Puzzle letters
Thank you everybody for your kind words and generous ratings. Fontstructing is like building with Lego bricks, but better.
This is an updated character set. I changed the C, I, M, and W. For the record, the original colours are as follows: #24b3fc, #008bce, #f6d000, #fff142.
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I don't know why it just turned black when I used it on my windows pc but nice.
But I might want to go to "User Input" for writing stuff in this colored font.
@alexopyrchalyoy did you install the .colr one? if so, it should work in powerpoint
edit: there's somehow still no .colr vwesion
It looks like Hama perlerbeads but it's joined into letters.
Can you add more glyphs (e.g. More Latin)?
Add Complete More Latin!
@NewCurvenBig and Miguel Gil: adding the extended Latin characters — with diacritical marks at the top and bottom — would significantly increase the font's vertical dimension and leading. For standard English text, that would result in large swathes of white space (well, yellow areas with studs). If I decide to do it, it will be a separate font.
Cool! Add latin-1 supplement
It looks really good, Frodo7.
@Hamaninanny17 are you blind
@Chris Burgess (maneman): Thank you, Chris.
I've a wonderful time studying your beautiful works, like this. Take a look at this little detail, dear Maestro.
@elmoyenique: Thank you. That's what I call imperfection, not design choice. Number 9 was also affected. I'll check the whole set and correct all defects. They say, a font is never finished.
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