Has it ever happened that you vaguely remember a character, a font or a shape but you don’t exactly know what it was called? How do you find out? You can’t exactly Google it, can you? The answer here would be a tool like ShapeCatcher. Just draw the shape (it doesn’t matter how bad you [...]
Textual representations and symbols on our computer use a variety of characters. To explore these characters, you need a source that displays them and provides details such as encoding, comments, and location. Unicodinator is precisely such a source. Unicodinator is a web tool that lets you visually navigate through Unicode blocks and codepoints 0000 through [...]
Web font services have changed the way web designers and developers work. These are free font libraries that allow you to embed their fonts in your design. Web Font Services is an index of the most popular services available on the web along with their different features. In addition to listing the browsers each service [...]
If you ever work with web or graphic designs, you know how hard it is to keep track of all the different fonts you download to your computer. Wordmark is a tool that makes font selection super easy by letting you preview all installed fonts on your machine using any words or phrases. You can [...]
Are you trying to decide which font to use on your website? One easy way to select a font would be to juxtapose different font samples. Font Comparer lets you easily do this. FontComparer is a simple online tool that lets you compare web fonts from Google Fonts as well as Typekit. You can type [...]
How much significance can you attach to type? Does Gotham signify certain personality traits that Gilli Sans doesn’t? What are those and how are they related? Pentagram is a fun little video-based tool that lets you find out. It helps you answer the question “What Type Are You?” by asking certain personality trait questions and [...]
Inserting fancy characters and symbols in your text always helps. However, besides a few common characters, most people don’t know the code for many of these. NiceEntity is a web resource that indexes hundreds of special characters along with their HTML and Unicode details. You can browse through categories like Punctuations, Accents, Shapes & Symbols, [...]
Looking for a tool to test typographic scale and rhythm? Such things are not in abundance on the web so I thought I would share one I know ““ Lamb Typograph. Lamb Typograph is a free web service that helps you check typographic scale and rhythm. The webpage is both an essay and a testing [...]
Type Folly is a unique, one of a kind website which will greatly interest web designers and developers. Often while creating web layouts you use a CSS style sheet to obtain perfect object position and alignment. With this website, you can create visually brilliant type compositions and get their CSS3 and HTML code. It is [...]
Are you the type who fools around with fonts when chatting with friends online? If you are, then you should check out Fontself. This simple tool lets you create and use various fonts and create your own alphabet for your blog, website, and social networking profiles. To start using Fontself, select one of the fontself [...]
A justified alignment is the most ideal text alignment for webpages since it creates a clean, presentable look while allowing for flexible management of other elements in the page. However, paragraphs having an uneven distribution of long and short words could make a justified text alignment look awkward, as they may cause unsightly huge spacing [...]
AceFreeFonts is a free font archive that provides you with a huge collection (over 20,000) of downloadable fonts. All fonts are nicely organized into categories and searchable by name or tags. Clicking on a particular font takes you to a page where you can preview the font with your own text and rate. The additional [...]
Typekit is a crafty web design tool that gives you quick access to online library of free and commercial fonts. All Typekit fonts are hosted online and can be easily added to your site. You can find fonts by browsing through tags and styles, choose from serif, sans serif, script, and exotic styles. Some tags [...]
If you love typography then you would definitely love Typedia. Launched recently by well known graphic designer Jason Santa Maria, Typedia is a web based shared encyclopedia of typefaces. You can search and explore font arts, designs, learn about typography, participate in the forums, add and share your own creativity and print the nice typefaces [...]
Sometimes you need to insert a special character (copyright mark ©, currency symbol €,¥ etc) in your email message or a blog post online. Most probably you copy/paste a required character either from a Word processor program or by searching for it online. Now, if you ever need to quickly cut and paste special characters, [...]
FontBurner is a website enhancement service that enables you to add new and stylish fonts to your website. Websites are basically can only use a certain fonts and this is because of limited number in default fonts that come with all computers. FontBurner bypasses this limitation by providing an easy way of embedding over 1000 [...]