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A simple tool to preview and compare fonts online

By Sharninder | Published: January 19, 2009

Trying to select the best font for a particular job is every designer’s nightmare. A font which looks fine on your computer might do wonders for a print campaign and be way off for an online campaign.

I have spent hours myself trying to find the perfect font for my projects and no matter how hard I try or how much time I spend on getting the ‘look’ right, the fonts always seem a little off on anything other than my own computer. Also, its a pain to select the hundreds of fonts that I have installed and type a sentence using each one them. 

Fortunately, there is an easy solution to your problems.

Font Picker is a nice little webapp whose only purpose in life is to help you see all the fonts installed on your system by rendering a text using those fonts.

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Click inside the display window and type the text that you want to see rendered. The application will display the same text using all the fonts it can find on your system, making it easier to compare. Click on the X button to remove the font from the view.

If webapps are not your thing, the author also has a desktop application for this very purpose. It has been written using Adobe Air and so you might have to install Adobe Air first.

Finally, I can get around to designing a proper logo for Geeky Ninja :-)

About Sharninder:

Programmer, blogger and a geek making a living shifting bits around the Internet. Sharninder is the owner of Geeky Ninja
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