Interested in having your fingers do the talking? iFontMaker, a collaboration between Tomonaga Tokuyama and Pentacom, allows you to draw your own fonts, and then convert it to a TTF file. The subsequent file can then be used within the Creative Suite. Smart.

What I like most about this concept is that it leverages touch to allow people to express themselves in a new and creative way. Before iFontMaker, there were a few attempts at making type design fun and intuitive. Yugo Nakamura’s Font Park and Type is Art’s Parts of a Character come to mind. But for the most part the craft, art, and science of font design is limited to the obsessive few typographers in the world.

I can’t wait for my daughter to create her first font face.