Through the Flash-based builder, FontStruct builds letters from the bottom up, out of blocks, dots and other elements. (Think Tetris here, only there’s no pressure.) ...

Capital letters are signified with a little dot above the glyph. This allows each character to consume only a single vertical row, making it essentially the perfect monospace font.

When a letter is used two times in a row, one is changed “so it looks different,” Mohamed explains. “Even the dots are going to be in a different height.” Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

Each font uses a different optical trick to make them difficult to scan: 'Camo' adds camouflage-like patterns over letters, 'Noise' overlays the letters with dots, 'Xed' puts a neat X across each ...

Each font uses a different optical trick to make them difficult to scan: ‘Camo’ adds camouflage-like patterns over letters, ‘Noise’ overlays the letters with dots, ‘Xed’ puts a neat X ...

There is, however, a set called Silverware Font Set that contains 23 fonts, and it’s free. Tap Activate and then Agree to begin installing the set. Tap Install and Close once it’s done.

Removing fonts can be done from the same places: Font Book on a Mac (select, then press the Delete key), or the Fonts folder via the Windows Control Panel (tap the three dots in the upper right ...

By the age of 15, he’d created a simple, efficient system of dots and spaces contained in compact cells that allowed a reader to comprehend each letter in a single touch.