Lego Font and Rubik Creator are two Shockwave applications brought to you by lineto.com. Lineto – the name is borrowed from the PostScript page description language – was founded by Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller in 1993. Five years later, they jointly set up Lineto.com to distribute their own typefaces through the internet, and invited a number of fellow designers to publish their fonts alongside.
Not only that the selection of fonts on the site is wonderful but the site itself is an experience. Inspired by the fonts themselves, the site is a full screen font extravaganza with a minimal navigation bar inspired by the System 7 Mac OS.
The two apps, are a result of work by a number of designers.
Lego Font Creator
This little application was a collaboration between the designers Urs Lehni and Rafael Koch with the developer Jürg Lehni, as a progression from the design of their Lineto Lego fonts. The irresistible logic of the Lego brick prompted them to start thinking about how the fonts could be shown in an interactive type specimen, offering ways to play with it online. You can export the result as vector data, which can be opened and edited in programs like Adobe llustrator or Macromedia Freehand
The application is sold as a stand-alone Shockwave application for Macintosh or Windows platforms.
Rubik Creator
This Shockwave application, programmed by Jürg Lehni, was initially developed as a design tool for generating a set of fonts based on the legendary Rubik Cube. The application allows users to pick and play with a set of 27 cubes, to modify them within certain parameters, and to export the result as vector data, which can be opened and edited in programs like Adobe llustrator or Macromedia Freehand.
The application is sold as a stand-alone Shockwave application for Macintosh or Windows platforms.
You can find more information about these apps on lineto.com
