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Say hello to “Test your fonts”

This is not the surprise I was talking about but more of an idea I had this week end while working on some of my themes. I thought it could be cool if there was a website (maybe there is actually but I’m not aware of it) where I could check right away in just one or two clicks how a font I want to use looks like in different sizes and on different browsers and OS (Mac OS X, windows, etc..).

So I made this site called “test your fonts“. A simple site where you can choose among the 17 most used fonts of the web and see how they render in their main variants and sizes. As stated on the site, the goal was not in any way to compete with the very complete and powerful “Typetester“. The idea is more to have something simple and fast where you can check on the fly your different type options. The original intent was to make it a personal tool but I bet that some of my fellow designers will be interested by it. Anyway, feel free to use it because…It’s free ;)

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On Mar 15 2007 @ 19:36, eyePIXELS said: | Quote

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Hey this is great Pat. Real cool and useful tool indeed.

On Mar 16 2007 @ 10:25, Kel said: | Quote

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Pretty cool - nice and simple. Only suggestion would be to see an option to reverse the colors, so you could see dark text on a light background in addition to the light on dark version. Great job!

On Mar 16 2007 @ 10:38, Patrice said: | Quote

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Thanks.
Kel, I thought about that and that will be for sure in the next version.

On Apr 25 2007 @ 08:39, harlan (wibs) said: | Quote

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hey patrice! been a while :)

blew my mind coming across your site tonight - you’ve definitely come a long way since we first started hacking together themes.

anyway what I’m trying to get at here is Test Your Fonts is awesome and I’ll probably be using it more frequently than I’d like to admit. If you really want to go nuts you could correlate with the Top 40 installed fonts list, but that can be a big apple to chew.

keep up the good work and take care of yourself :)

On Jun 15 2007 @ 20:21, Photoshop Tutorials said: | Quote

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awesome web tool, thank you!





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