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Flipping Typical (Fonts)

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I'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?

Nice 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. :)

When 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.

I 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.

I like how he called it WTF instead of FAQ.

This is very neat. It lacks three things to be perfect -

(a) point size selection

(b) ability to select (and remember) which fonts to render

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.

One suggestion - let me change the default text from the URL. Maybe something like http://flippingtypical.com#MyText.

I spent about an hour doing this manually in Photoshop yesterday. Great tool to have in my bookmarks.

Very cool. Try clicking on one of the fonts, it'll replace the one you are using on top!

Seems much easier to use Flash to detect installed fonts… http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visito...

Yeah, that works great on platforms that don't support Flash.

easier and more accurate.

How 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.

Very well done. Bravo!

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