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Fonts and Typography

Resources

Font
Symbols
Lorem Ipsum Generators

Guides

  • Interactive Guide to Blog Typography

    A practical guide to blog typography. With small adjustments, you can noticeably improve its typography. Your readers will thank you for it. This guide will help you understand the typographic foundations that will improve the readability of your articles. Made by Tommi Kaikkonen.

  • Butterick’s Practical Typography

    A robust guide to all things typography. Author claims all you need is 10 minutes to become a better typographer - All it takes is ten min­utes—five min­utes to read each of the twenty-six rules once, then five min­utes to read them again.

Tutorials

  • KernType - a learning game

    An interactive tutorial to achieving pleasant and readable text by distributing the space between letters. Typographers call this activity kerning. Your solution will be compared to a typographer's solution, and you will be given a score depending on how close you nailed it.

Tools

  • WhatFont Chrome Extension

    WhatFont is a tool that allows user to detect various fonts on webpages. WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font with support for Typekit and Google Font API. Whatfont is available in a bookmarklet, Chrome extension, and Safari extension format.

  • Type Tester

    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.

  • Vertical Rhythm

    Allows to calculate vertical rhythm using CSS.