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Flipping Typical (Fonts)
- bk 18y agoNice execution. I drew up a site exactly like this about a year and a half ago, but never got around to building it. One less thing I have to build. :)
- reconbot 18y agoWhen this happens part of me goes "Nooo!! I could have done that!" and another part goes "Sweet!! Now I don't have to build it!" It's hard to get the two parts to settled back down though.
- unalone 18y agoI love that feeling. I want success, but I'm more motivated by the prospect of making something that I want. When I see something I could have made, I write the guy who made it, congratulate him, and talk with him a bit, because I've just found somebody who might make a good friend. Then I get on to working on another madcap adventure.
- Zev 18y agoI'm liking this a lot. My only suggestion would be to have some sort of indicator for web-safe fonts. Maybe a 1px box around the font name/text?
- ned 18y agoSeems much easier to use Flash to detect installed fonts… http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visitors-fonts-with-flash/ http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visito...
- inc 18y agoOne suggestion - let me change the default text from the URL. Maybe something like http://flippingtypical.com#MyText http://flippingtypical.com#MyText.
- huhtenberg 18y agoThis is very neat. It lacks three things to be perfect - (a) point size selection (b) ability to select (and remember) which fonts to render (c) support for all installed fonts the way http://typetester.org http://typetester.org does it This would basically allow previewing how specific text would look like in a variety of types and sizes .. which is a bit more practical than "A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer" as stated in FAQ.
- bprater 18y agoVery cool. Try clicking on one of the fonts, it'll replace the one you are using on top!
- kirubakaran 18y agoI like how he called it WTF instead of FAQ.
- fuzzmeister 18y agoI spent about an hour doing this manually in Photoshop yesterday. Great tool to have in my bookmarks.
- poub 18y agoVery well done. Bravo!
- Shamiq 18y agoHow does it choose to organize the fonts? I don't know enough about how the fonts are stored on the system to figure it out.