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Find The Right Fonts For Your Projects & Test Them Online With FontPro

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Web designers have a lot riding on their shoulders whenever they set out to design a new app or service; everything from the layout and the flow of the content to its color scheme has to be carefully considered and crafted. One very important aspect of design is the choice of font that’s used. It might sound somewhat trivial, but fonts come in a huge variety and they certainly aren't a one-size fits all deal. FontPro is an excellent service that helps you choose the right font for any project. It’s free for now, but might not stay that way. The service allows you to search fonts by specifying different parameters such as the weight, slant, and width of the letters. The search can further be classified into serif, sans serif, slab serif, monospaced, script, handwriting, black letter, and decorative. Let's take a more detailed look at it after the jump. Read More

Win Toolbox Is A Unified Dashboard For Several Handy, Frequently Used Utilities

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Win Toolbox is a multi-purpose Windows utility that acts as a Swiss Army Knife for launching and controlling system utilities as well as user-installed applications from a single place. It contains an umpteen number of features that might leave you fairly impressed. Although the program looks very simple from the UI, it provides useful tools like a screen capturer, color picker, fonts explorer, system shutdown timer and more. It’s fairly feature-rich with a truckload of settings and options, so lets take a closer look at the most salient ones after the jump. Read More

Rent Fonts Or Try Them Out For Free With SkyFonts For Windows

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I still remember renting VHS tapes when VCDs weren't that mainstream and DVDs/Blu-rays weren't even around. Renting a product or service is nothing new, especially in the digital age. Ask yourself if you would you rather spend twenty bucks on purchasing an album from iTunes, or a month of Spotify premium membership? And how about renting a hundred gigs of cloud storage at Dropbox? You’d probably be astonished at hearing this, but you can rent fonts as well, thanks to the recent debut of SkyFonts - an awesome service by Monotype Imaging Holdings. SkyFonts aims to help creative designers and graphics artists in trying out fonts for free, and rent them either for a day or a month by paying a small fee. Rented fonts automatically disappear from your system upon expiration date. Read More

Design Your Own Fonts With BirdFont For Windows, Mac & Linux

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The right way to market a product or service is to choose a captivating logo for your brand, and when it comes to designing such a logo or other material related to your brand identity, using the right font play a pivotal role. Using a poor typeface in your branding can result in a bad impression on your potential customer base, as it makes your brand look unprofessional. If you’re looking for a way to create your own fonts, give BirdFont a shot. It’s an open-source tool that lets you create various font characters from scratch by drawing vector outlines for them. The application also allows exporting and importing fonts in TTF, EOT and SVG formats. Read More

Install Fonts Temporarily & Easily Remove Them After Use With FontLoader

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If you are into web/graphic designing, you must be familiar with the importance of a good collection of fonts. With millions of webpages available on the internet, and thousands more being created daily, it is the job of the designer to make the page stand out from the crowd and grab the visitor’s attention. Other than the position of different elements and the images, fonts play a major role in constituting a good design. One common problem for designers is that they have to constantly keep installing new fonts on their systems, causing the Fonts folder to become cluttered. If you have to check how a certain text will appear in different fonts, you will have to install all of them and uninstall them again when you are done, just to avoid overcrowding your fonts collection. FontLoader is a portable utility for Windows that lets you temporarily load fonts onto your computer and easily unload them once you are done testing them out with your project. The main purpose of this app is to enable you to keep the Windows Fonts folder clean. Keep reading to find out how this tool works. Read More

Manage, Delete Or Backup Fonts On Windows With FontFrenzy

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Great web developers are like artists; they give attention to detail in everything they design. One very important aspect they never neglect while creating a captivating layout is the right choice of typeface. That's why apps that help with managing and installing font files can come real handy to developers and designers alike. A short while ago, we reviewed two awesome font applications for our readers called NexusFont and Typefacer. Today, we’ve discovered yet another such utility called FontFrenzy. The application works as a one-stop-shop for managing your font files. What makes it stand out from the previous apps is its ability to remove all fonts except for those that come installed with Windows. What’s more, you can install or remove custom fonts, and create a snapshot of existing font files so you may easily restore them if needed. More details after the break. Read More

Typefacer Provides An Easier Way To Browse & Preview Installed Fonts

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There’s been a lot of debate regarding how typefaces really changed the way we interact with our computers. And by computers, I’m not just referring to the PC sitting on your desktop, but the smartphones, tablets, and all media devices in general. Whether you're developing an app, a new webpage for your company, or you’re preparing an important presentation for the next executives meeting, choosing the right font type has a lot of significance. However, even if you have a sharp aesthetic sense, you will still have trouble  browsing through all the fonts installed on your PC to identify the few that you intend to use for your next project, especially if you've been collecting and installing huge font packs for while. In such a situation, you might have to turn to Typerfacer, a simple and easy-to-use utility that automatically scans all the installed font types on your machine, letting you browse through them in a relatively easier manner, preview them and test how each would look with a certain block of text. Read More

NexusFont: Manage Fonts On Your PC & Export Character Maps As Images

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If you call Steve Jobs the father of typography, you couldn’t actually be more right. Little did he know that the calligraphy classes he attended after dropping out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, would change the way we use fonts on our computers, ten years after his completion of calligraphy lessons. You might have perhaps guessed it by now that I am referring to the Macintosh, the first ever PC to give font selection options to its users. Today, we have so many typefaces to choose from, both that come preinstalled with the OS and tens of thousands of others, which are being created on daily basis. If you’re a writer, artist or a graphics designer, then one tediousness you might have faced from time to time is managing your fonts (or typefaces, for that matter). There are ones that you don’t really need, and then those which you want to have in your possession. NexusFont is a typography application that can help you in that regard. The developer has advertised it as an application with simple and intuitive UI, and to be honest, we couldn’t agree more. It’s designed to let you easily manage and select all your fonts within a single hub. The program tells complete details for the selected font, and lets you install and uninstall fonts in its library. It’s a perfect package for people who spend a great deal of time in font selection, too. Read More

WhatTheFont For Android: Identify Fonts Used In Any Image Or Photo

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Often, it happens that while browsing the web, reading a magazine, newspaper or even a billboard, we stumble upon some fancy-looking font, wishing there were a way could know its name. It is in such situations that popular online fonts database MyFonts' WhatTheFont comes in handy. Originally just a web app, WhatTheFont is now available on Android and iOS-powered devices. All the app needs to identify fonts within an image is an active internet connection. You can either import an image from your device’s storage or snap a fresh photo that contains the text whose font you wish to identify. The image is uploaded to the MyFonts service for font identification, and once the processing is done, you’re presented with all potential matches, complete with various font details. Looking at the service’s enormous font repository, we can assure you that your queries will be able to fetch results for almost any font out there, provided it isn't custom-made. Read More

WhatFontis: Identify Fonts From Any Image [Web]

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WhatFontis, a web application, lets you identify fonts from any image. All you have to do is upload an image, and WhatFontis will show you the matching results that look similar to the font. Just visit the website, upload an image and find matching fonts. A list of results is displayed along with the original image at the bottom right corner of the page, allowing you to compare the results with the original image. Some fonts are free, while others are paid, so you may click a font to download or buy it. The service is completely free and requires no sign up, whatsoever. Read More

Install Microsoft Core Fonts in Ubuntu With Ttf Mscorefonts Installer

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Ttf mscorefonts installer is a package for Linux distributions that allows easy installation of Microsoft True Type Core Fonts, like Andale Mono, Arial Black, Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Comic Sans MS (Bold), Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Impact, Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) etc. Read More

Fount: Quickly View CSS Attributes Of Fonts Used On Websites

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All browsers come with tools that help developers test web pages and ensure the site(s) they’ve developed play nice. Additionally, there are also add-ons or extensions that help developers and the Firebug add-on for Firefox is one of the more popular examples. For each browser, you have different tools and there is little uniformity among them. The tools will all provide some basic features but it is safe to say some browser’s developer tools are better than those of others. While the world of built-in browser tools is vast, the fact is that they aren’t all used or needed to their full extent. You might end up opening the developer panel for very simple things like checking the CSS used on a web page. If you often have to find out the font-family, font size and style from webpages, we recommend using Fount. It’s basically a bookmarklet that works with its own web application (does not rely on another service) that lets you easily identify Font CSS styles (font family, size and style) applied over selected text. It comes useful in instances where you want to use font styles used on a specific webpage on your own websites. All that is required is to add the Fount-provided button to the bookmark bar. When you want to read font attributes, click its bookmarklet to view the font CSS properties in a tiny semi-transparent window. Read More

How To Change Fonts In Ubuntu Linux

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Operating systems today offers us a wide range of font options, such as, type, style and size. Ubuntu Linux lets you change the fonts in an easy way. There are five types of fonts which falls in category of Desktop Fonts. These are Application Font, Document Fonts, Desktop Fonts, Windows Title Fonts and Fixed Width Fonts. Read More