'FontEdit' was also the name of a program published in PC Magazine eons ago, for creating VGA text-mode fonts in executable format. There were probably others that shared the name, but that's the one I actually remember typing in from the magazine printout(!), and it's the one that got me started fiddling with fonts.
I can appreciate the naming struggle - I had to resort to calling my own editor 'Fontraption'. :)
I too remember this.. back in school we used to create fonts with messed up characters (backwards/upside-down/invisible) and load them into the autoexec.bat ... Confused a lot of people.