15 Free And Useful Typography Tools For Web Designers

February 28th, 2010 Posted in Tools

Typography is one of the most important components that make a design complete. This aspect of your design can effectively engage users when used properly. It can also help you enhance the visual appearance of your website, print/graphic designs, and more.

Here we have 15 Free and Useful Typography Tools for Web Designers that’ll help you in a variety of ways. Alright, now lets begin exploring these tools.

FontStructor

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FontStuctor is an easy to use free web-based typography tool that allows you to create your own fonts. It has a beautiful interface that is simple to interact with.

CSS Type Set

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CSS Type Set is a wonderful tool that lets you visually and actively style your text that it can generate efficient CSS.

WhatTheFont

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WhatTheFont lets you interactively scan a URL or upload an image that has a font(s) and it will then tell you what the font is. It’s a great way to find out what fonts other designers are using to create amazing designs.

Font Burner

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Font Burner allows you a simple and efficient block of code so that you can embed in your webpages giving the option to convert your headlines to whatever possible font you choose.

PXtoEM

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PXtoEM is a calculator that does conversions of pixels, em’s, points, and percentages.

Typetester

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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.

Font Tester

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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. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.

TypeNavigator

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TypeNavigator is the world’s first interactive visual font search system.

Typechart

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Typechart allows you to navigate through, preview and compare web typography and then grab the CSS and embed it into your web designs.

Flipping Typical

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Flipping Typical is a smart way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer.

CSS-Typoset Matrix

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CSS-Typoset Matrix actively displays font sizes, line-heights, and margins for a variety of base font sizes. It can also output the CSS code depending on the data you insert.

Linotype Font Finder

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Answer a few simple questions and the artificial intelligence of the FontIdentifier will help you find your font.

Identifont

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The Identifont expert system enables you to identify a typeface from a sample by answering a series of questions about key characteristics.

Serif Font Identification Guide

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Serif Font Identification Guide is an incredible visual font identification application that displays various images allowing you to choose from whichever match the font you’re trying to recognize the closest.

Font Picker

Font Picker lets you browse all the fonts available on your computer. You’re able to quickly view a font that you may want to use in a design, or a project. It’s quite useful.

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5 Responses to “15 Free And Useful Typography Tools For Web Designers”

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  2. SCMIND Says:

    Nice post..Flipping Typical is very useful.


  3. Lendl Says:

    DIdn’t know sites like FONTSTRUCTOR existed!!! Thanks for the info :)


  4. Stacey Says:

    I am totally geeking out over the Serif Font Identification Guide. I will probably use this every single day. Works wonderfully in tandem with What the Font. Great article!


  5. Wedding Hire Says:

    Superb, thanks very much.


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