14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers
Since typography is one of the most challenging and important aspects of web design, it’s important to have useful tools that can make things easier. Here’s a list of tools that will be a big help in making your typography beautiful, and you won’t even have to leave your browser.
CSS Type Set
CSS Type Set allows you to visually and interactively style text and it generates the CSS.
Typetester
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Typechart
Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography and then grab the CSS.
WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont allows you to scan in or provide the URL of a font and it will tell you what it is.
Fontstruct
FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
Baseline Rhythm Calculator
Baseline Rhythm Calculator generates CSS from a base font size and line height entered by the user.
PXtoEM
PXtoEM is a calculator that does conversions of pixels, em’s, points, and percentages.
Font Burner
Font Burner gives you a simple block of code to put in your webpages so you can transform your headlines from boring system fonts to any of the quality fonts in their archives.
TypeNavigator
TypeNavigator is the world’s first interactive visual font search system.
Font Tester
Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them.
Flipping Typical
Flipping Typical allows you to enter text and then preview it in many different fonts at one time.
Identifont
Identifont lets you identify a typeface from a sample by answering a series of questions about key characteristics.
STC FontBrowser
STC FontBrowser lets you preview all of the fonts active on your computer.
Convert TrueType Font to Sifr Flash File
The name of this one is self explanatory, plus it emails the Sifr file to you.
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27 comments
Designect.Com
September 28, 2009Very nice!!! Thank you!!!
danny
September 28, 2009no Cufón or Kernest??
Paul Olyslager
September 28, 2009I really love whatthefont but doesn’t always come up with the right result. And thank you Danny, for the two other ones.
Sean Hurley
September 28, 2009Great post! Some new sites I haven’t seen before.
Jeremy Pass
September 28, 2009Great stuff man!
1001fonts.com
September 28, 2009The TypeNavigator services are not available in Germany
Anyone know of an anonymous proxy that lets one use this site within Germany?
typegoodness
September 28, 2009typetester is for sure the most useful one. you forgot to mention http://www.webtypography.net/ which is a great resource for more detailed web typography.
theComplex
September 28, 2009Wow… I can’t wait to test these out. Thanks so much!
Brad McCall
September 28, 2009Great list of resources. I’ve used a couple of these, but others I hadn’t run across. Timely too, as I’m working on a new version of my portfolio website. Thanks!
Quicken Websites
September 28, 2009“What the font” definitely goes onto my favorite apps list. Thanks!
Bendesign
September 29, 2009Great Collection. Thank you.
Grafiker
September 29, 2009Nice Sites. “What the font” is my favourite
Web 2.0
September 29, 2009Great tools, thanks…
squareart
September 30, 2009bookmarking right now, I use a few already, but some nice additions
cypherbox
September 30, 2009Awesome cool. Thanks for the share!
alaJoAnn
October 1, 2009Even an amateur like myself can use these tools. They all are free – I’ll add them to my list of free online resources. Thanks!
WhatTheFont! reminds me of I+Like+Your+Colors. Same idea, only with website color codes.
Mark Carter
October 6, 2009Baseline Rhythm Calculator is really useful, and hadn’t encountered it before … many thanks for the resource link
Web Design Singapore
October 8, 2009what more can i say?
yet another cool post by webdesignledger!
Thomas Knoble
October 17, 2009These resources are terrific. I particularly like the application for finding a typeface that’s in your imagination and now you have a tool for going out to find it on the web.
Thanks so much.
Webdesign Koblenz
October 21, 2009Thanks, Awesome tools we will use next time. Font Tester rocks!
Bjoern
October 22, 2009Hi,
nice list. But “Convert TrueType Font to Sifr Flash File” is 404
Greetings
Dan Mitchell
November 27, 2009Great stuff! Chicken Dinner!
Nilimesh
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the above information is extremly essential……
Ruben
January 24, 2010TypeDNA offer a lot of cool font tools. http://www.typedna.com they have font recognition, font manager and the coolest plugins for Adobe CS!
mysuperwoofer
July 15, 2010thanks for these 14 online typography tools, I think it will very useful for online editing.
Chris Brown
June 18, 2011I think that good online typography will be the next big thing in the next five years. It will massively change the look of the internet forever.
Design Nirvana
April 16, 2013Very useful st of tools… Thanks for this wonderful roundup.
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