Today I tested two cool online tools, which could be very interesting to use – Typetester and What the Font!?
Typetester compares up to 3 different fonts in a Lorem Ipsum text or you can create your own text. It shows the different fonts in regular, bold, italic, uppercase, small caps and more. So you can decide which style you like most.
You can also adjust the size, color, alignment… and so on. You can even copy the CSS style for the text with the certain style.
A really useful, compact and handy tool and the best of all, it’s free! Just go here to the website and try it out!
There are also other online font tools, like Font Tester. But it only shows some standard fonts to compare with.
Another interesting tool is What the Font!?
If you see a logo or picture with an interesting font you can determine what font they use with What the Font!? Just upload the picture and What the Font!? will try to find out what font it is or looks very similar to this one.
You don’t have so many fonts to compare with?
You won’t have this problem any longer, next week I will write a post with a list of great resources with awesome fonts for free. Just subscribe to my RSS Feed or email subscription to get notified when this list is online.
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July 18th, 2008 at 11:16 am
The second online tool is really wonderful!
They are really useful for developers.
Thanks, Alex!
July 19th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Hey Yuen, hope you can use it very often and it helps to find out the right font.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:51 am
Fonts are something I really struggle with in the layouts I do. They are my weakness for sure. This seems like a helpful tool though so I can get a better visual on how it will look.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Hey Tracy, I hope that will help you a lot and turns your weakness into a strentgh
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
This is one cool site. Very useful for that important typography decision.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 am
@Celina, glad you liked the tip.