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Typechart CSS Typography
A CSS typography site that lets you preview, compare, then download the corresponding CSS for a web typography.
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thumbs down, sorry!
“A CSS typography site that lets you preview, compare, then download the corresponding CSS for a web typography.”
Don’t ALL sites do this?
Or did somebody misplace the VIEW SOURCE button???
*sigh*
Well, the difference is that there are lots of different fonts to look over.
Mark has missed the point completely. Its about looking through a gallery of css typography and choosing the right one.
A bit like typetester but the works done for you.
Neat site.
missed what point?
the entire “css typography display could be generated with 12 lines of ASP/PHP code, tops.
If it were interactive and allowed you to wysiwig your way into getting a display that you could then be satisfied and choose/download that would be one thing, but just listing a bunch of fonts with CSS??
puh-leeze
Gushing over inconsequential nonentities!
...next y’a'll try to tell me some Arctic trailer trash mom is fit to be VP…gimme a break!
Mark obviously you are not a designer. Otherwise you would find the value of such a site. Apparently you are not a developer either because such a site could not be built on 12 lines of code.
Clearly the site organizes fonts in a manner that allows you to easily browse and select based upon the project at hand. Whats the alternative? Browsing cssdrive, finding a site with a font you like, viewing source, and finding the code within the source? Which is easier?
Useful but OMG “Yawn”
“Mark obviously you are not a designer. Otherwise you would find the value of such a site. Apparently you are not a developer either because such a site could not be built on 12 lines of code. “
I think any ‘designer’ that needs a site like that to pick fonts and css has more time on his hands than you can imagine (for a quality designer who should be busy)
I doubt you could build the entire site on 12 lines of code, but the CSS typography display (which was being referred to, certainly!) especially if the typo text was included from a text file (and the list of fonts too)
Now, I am not a fan of extremely terse code squeezed to fit arbitrary space limitation, but certainly, especially using JQUERY it can all be done (and readably so, on a page or two?)
P.S. Using the FireFox webdeveloper extension, you could just toggle VIEW CSS and then click on the area you are interested in, no?
@mark Just because its more advanced, do we really need another dynamic generator? We already have Typetester which does the job perfectly well.
The windows vs mac preview is a nice touch too.
@phile we all have that extension - font finder is even better. But where can find lot of css typography in one place?
Now, I prefer to play around with type myself and I probably wont use the site. But some of the reasoning behind the negative comments are ridiculous.