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20 more online tools for web designers

By Ryan Boudreaux140 April 7, 2011, 3:02 AM PDT

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20 more online tools for web designers

HTML-Ipsum

HTML-Ipsum

ntThis website by Chris Coyier presents this useful feature of Ipsum text already in HTML tags. Just click on the titles to copy text to your clipboard. Html-Ipsum gives you the Latin text already in HTML tags, as unordered list, ordered list, or a definition list, just to name a few examples. Check out his CSS Tricks, another great resource.

20 more online tools for web designers

Identifont

Identifont

ntIdentifont lets you identify a typeface from a sample by answering a series of questions about key characteristics. Identifont is the largest independent directory of typefaces on the Internet. It provides a range of features to help you locate fonts or find information about fonts:

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ntThe Identifont website is based on the Common Lisp Hypermedia Server, a Web server designed for advanced applications in AI and research, and developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

20 more online tools for web designers

Lino Type Font Finder

Lino Type Font Finder

ntIf you have a restricted set of letters, such as in a logo or heading, enter them into the font finder and you will be asked questions that can be answered from the letters you specified.

20 more online tools for web designers

Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum

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ntt“Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…”
ntt”There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…”

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ntThe paragraphs, words, bytes, or lists of Lorem Ipsum are available including mock banners in several colors and a range of banner sizes.
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20 more online tools for web designers

Microsoft Clear Type Tuner

Microsoft Clear Type Tuner

ntUse this online tuner to adjust  your Windows XP ClearType settings for better readability. Please note that the online tuner does not currently work with Windows Vista.

20 more online tools for web designers

Microsoft Typography

Microsoft Typography

ntThis tool features a selected list of Microsoft products and fonts listed by family also has a list of core fonts for the web, and a clear type font collection.

20 more online tools for web designers

PXtoEM

PXtoEM

ntPXtoEM is a calculator that does conversions of pixels, ems, points, and percentages. Easily convert pixels to em to percent to points with this online tool.

20 more online tools for web designers

STC FontBrowser

STC FontBrowser

ntThis flash application will allow you to quickly preview the fonts active on your system.

20 more online tools for web designers

Texster

Texster

ntThough it appears to be in Russian language, this tool is a very helpful font selector with options to modify the size, line height, letter spacing, word spacing, and text indent in em, px, pt or %. Options for color and background color also. Just grab the CSS when you have configured what you need.

20 more online tools for web designers

The TTFTitles WordPress Plugin

The TTFTitles WordPress Plugin

ntThis WordPress plugin lets you use images to replace the titles of your posts, thus circumventing the problem of guessing what fonts your end-users might have installed.

20 more online tools for web designers

Type Chart

Type Chart

ntTypechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS:

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Type Navigator

Type Navigator

ntTypeNavigator is the world’s first interactive visual font search system. Select from the forms on the left that best describes the font you are looking for, and then pick other attributes by selecting the radio buttons that define the characteristics, and then click “Search.”

20 more online tools for web designers

Type Tester

Type Tester

ntTypetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. Typetester’s code structure is XHTML, styled with the finest CSS and driven by the JavaScript for manipulating DOM structures. Typetester will not work without JavaScript enabled. Typetester is built by User Interface Studio.

20 more online tools for web designers

typeface.js

typeface.js

ntInstead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally. Here’s what it takes to make it run: load the typeface.js library and some typeface.js fonts, then proceed like normal.

20 more online tools for web designers

Typophile Forum

Typophile Forum

ntOne of the best typographic related forums, where you can find very useful information, ask your questions, and find experienced people in the same realm.

20 more online tools for web designers

Typotheque Hi-Res FontTester

Typotheque Hi-Res FontTester

ntThis is a useful tool; however it is limited to only the fonts available to buy from the site. You can create a PDF file from the end results.

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What The Font (My Fonts)

What The Font (My Fonts)

ntWhatTheFont allows you to scan in or provide the URL of a font and it will tell you what it is. Have you seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest match in their database. Or, let cloak-draped font enthusiasts lend a hand in the WhatTheFont Forum.

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Wordle

Wordle

ntWordle is a fun online application for generating u201cword cloudsu201d from text or URL with RSS feed that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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Your Fonts

Your Fonts

ntYourFonts.com is an online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes. Go make your own handwriting as a font!

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