Web Typography Resources
A growing list of web typography related apps, tools, plugins and other resources for web designers and web developers.
Web Typography Quiz
Web typography is a bit tricky. Take this web typography quiz and test your typography knowledge.
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Font Memory Game
Recognizing different styles of fonts is one of the most challenging parts of typography. This game helps you train your eyes to notice the smallest details.
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Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph
A learning game that teaches players how to shape typographically perfect paragraphs.
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Better Web Typography for a Better Web
A comprehensive web typography book for web designers and web developers.
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Basics
Typography Inspector
Typography Inspector analyses the typography on your site and helps you improve it.
Check it out ➝45to75
Character counter for helping to optimize line length (measure) between 45 and 75 characters.
Check it out ➝More Perfect Typography
At long last, designers can use real fonts on the web. But what now? Where do we go from here?
Check it out ➝Universal Typography
The web is universal and, in this renewed talk, Tim Brown shows how to practice typography in a way that is equally universal.
Check it out ➝On Web Typography
Through an understanding of our design tools and how they relate to the web as a medium, we can empower ourselves to use type in meaningful and powerful ways.
Check it out ➝Kerntype—a Kerning Game
Train your eyes to become a pro at kerning with this fun kerning game.
Check it out ➝Font Tools
SkyFonts
Install fonts from participating sites with a single click. Fonts are installed from the cloud on your computer in seconds.
Check it out ➝FontBase
FontBase is a free, beautifully crafted font utility for designers, that gives you all the possibilities of Fontcase.
Check it out ➝RightFont
Sparking font manager to preview, sync, install and organize fonts, with flawless integration into any design software.
Check it out ➝BirdFont
Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.
Check it out ➝FontForge
FontForge is a free and open source font editor brought to you by a community of fellow type lovers.
Check it out ➝Fontown
Fontown is a beautiful typefaces library ready-to-use with a powerful application to organize and share your fonts.
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“A web typography book for web developers and designers”
Typeface Anatomy
Recognizing & Choosing Fonts
FontFace Ninja
Fontface Ninja is a browser extension that let you inspect, try, bookmark and buy fonts on any websites.
Check it out ➝Web Font Specimen
Web Font Specimen is a handy, free resource web designers and type designers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.
Check it out ➝Web Font Previewer
This extension allows you to test webfonts out on any website and target which elements the fonts should be applied to.
Check it out ➝TypeWonder
This extension helps you to test webfonts on active chrome tab via typewonder.com.
Check it out ➝Google Font Previewer for Chrome
Lets you choose a font from the Google Font directory with a few text styling options, and preview them on the current tab.
Check it out ➝Combining Fonts
Typespiration
Free inspirational web font combinations with color palettes and ready-to-use HTML/CSS code.
Check it out ➝FontPair
An awesome collection of font combinations from real websites. Inspiring stuff.
Check it out ➝Variable Fonts
OpenType
Normalize OpenType
Adds OpenType features—ligatures, kerning, and more—to Normalize.css.
Check it out ➝Typeset.js
A typographic pre-processor for your html which uses zero client-side JavaScript and gives you advanced typographic features.
Check it out ➝Syntax for OpenType features in CSS
Individual OpenType features and how to use them in CSS.
Check it out ➝Vertical Rhythm
Visual Hierarchy
Typographic Scale
This plugin generates a typographic scale from selected text layers.
Check it out ➝Modular Scale
The Modular Scale calculator multiplies your scale’s base with a ratio to produce a scale of numbers that are proportionally related.
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