Picking your Font (Hair Pulling Optional)
So we all know that I’m a font geek. I love fonts. With great, spectacular, geeky love. I have about a bazillion. Or three. Lots.
Enough that sorting through them can make me pretty well inclined to run around my house pulling my hair out. Since this happens pretty often anyway, I try to keep it to a minimum, and since I fount Font Picker, well, there’s plenty of other stuff that stresses me out still, but the fonts, not a problem.
Pick a box (any box, it doesn’t matter) and type your desired text into it (a bit of it, anyway). It’ll immediately display that text in every box — and thus, in every font.
Eliminate fonts you know you don’t want by clicking the ‘X’; favorite ones you think might be The One by clicking the checkmark. You can unclick the checkmark, too, as you narrow things down.
Listing every font on your computer in one place would be valuable enough on its own — but being able to see what your chosen text is going to look like, and being able to compare one to another without having to switch back and forth, is the really valuable part.
Ladies and gentlemen, this tool is the win. Font Picker. Saving my hair on at least a weekly basis.
Dani made this mess on May 12th, 2011 and filed it under Random Drips
WOAH. This tool is made of win. Hot damn. Thank you for sharing!
So glad you like! My only complaint is that I want a tool that will preview fonts that aren’t installed, but are in a specific folder, yanno? ‘Cos I have SO MANY FONTS.
Oh, you’re running Linux, right? Check out Fonty Python for an offline version of the same thing.
Great resource! Thanks for sharing. You’re right; being able to compare fonts without switching back and forth is a very nice feature.