A typical web page generally consists of several different elements with most of them coded in different colors and written in different fonts and styles. Sometimes, we come across web pages so ...
It’s a familiar problem for any designer: You’re walking down the street when you spot a glorious typeface in the wild–something that would be perfect for the project you’ve been working on. But you ...
It's after dinner hour and you're still at work searching for the font your boss requested. You want to strangle the person who suggested the Boss keep a scrapbook of designs they like. How long can ...
Identifying fonts is a key skill and an integral part of a designer’s job. Even if you are not a designer, you may want to know what font something is. Here we have some tools to help you identify ...
A new real-world font scanning and automatic color picking device, Spector, may soon be hitting store and/or digital shelves soon — a Shazam for text formatting! Currently not marketed and lacking a ...
Because I get asked this all the time, I thought I’d share with you the best way to identify a font. Does it look like Helvetica? It’s probably Arial. Does it look like a restaurant menu? It’s ...
Think you know fonts like the back of your hand? This new quiz might just test your memory and patience – and all with a little gentle motivation from Owen Wilson. Typeface spot the difference game ...
In a PDF document, there are essentially two ways to display text. One way is to embed the text, including its font information, in the document file. The other way is to display the text as an image, ...
Thanks to subscription platforms like Typekit, licensing fonts for web use isn’t all that expensive or difficult any more. But there are plenty of free options, too–like Google Fonts, a collection of ...
If you are a website developer, you will know how important it is to choose a good-looking and easy-to-read font for the text. Many websites out there use a bad font and give a poor user experience to ...