10 Useful Typography Tools for Designers

Every designer knows that typography is one of the most essential ingredients for an awesome design. These typographic tools will help you get inspiration, find the font you’re looking for, easily compare different typefaces, create your own fonts, and more. So, have a look at these 10 useful typography tools sites and let us know your thoughts in comment.

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

Another typography tool for easily browse and compare web typography.

CSS Text Wrapper

The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website

PXtoEM.com

PXtoEM.com is px to em conversion made simple. Choose your body font size in pixels (px)and out comes a complete pixel (px) to em conversion table, making elastic web design with CSS a snap

fontStruct

ontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.

Csstxt

Csstxt is a webtool that propose to illustrate the many ways you got to add a style to a text with a p or div tag.

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text 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

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9 Comments

Maxisays on : February 18th, 2010 at 6:39 pm Said:

Good and useful tool
natesays on : February 19th, 2010 at 3:38 pm Said:

Does anyone have a suggestion for font management software? ATM light won’t install on the newest Microsoft OS so I’m looking for a good alternative. Thanks
Valsays on : February 19th, 2010 at 4:35 pm Said:

There are some really cool tools here. I can see myself using WhatTheFont and Flipping Typical a lot. Wordle and FontStruct look fun to mess around with too.
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Andreas Rauschersays on : February 20th, 2010 at 4:24 pm Said:

very good tools thanks
Stusays on : February 20th, 2010 at 4:35 pm Said:

Nice list of resources, definitely going in the bookmarks. Thanks!
Thomas Craig Consultingsays on : February 25th, 2010 at 9:55 am Said:

Very useful list thanks, another aspect of the attention to detail within design that might get overlooked by noobie developers.
Michelle | Uprintingsays on : February 26th, 2010 at 12:12 am Said:

I’m not really a designer but if I would need a typography tool I will know where to look for the best ones out there. Thanks!
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