Free (or budget-friendly) Type Tester/Type Preview Plugin Recommendations?

YenJap

Hi everyone,

I’m in the process of setting up my online shop to sell fonts and would love to include a type tester/type preview feature. Since I’m just starting out, I’m looking for a free (or budget-friendly) plugin that I can use for this purpose.

If you have any recommendations or experiences with plugins that work well for testing fonts directly on a website, I’d really appreciate your input. Bonus points if it’s easy to integrate and customize!

Thanks in advance!

mitradranirban

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4761/recommendations-on-building-a-foundry-website is a thread that discussed various options 

Kemie Guaida

I use fontsampler.js. If you're using wordpress, there's a plugin. If not it requires some configuration and technical knowledge. 

Johannes Neumeier

The Wordpress plugin has been deprecated for a while now, and as far as I understand will disappear from the plugin index in a while due to lack of updates, as I haven't found the time and motivation to keep it up to date with the ecosystem. Feel free to use the more generic Javascript version linked above, though, which I have in active use on several sites. It's a "developer" facing library, but with the given samples/docs I've seen people make it work on various platforms.

YenJap

mitradranirban said:

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4761/recommendations-on-building-a-foundry-website is a thread that discussed various options 

Thank you I will check it out 

YenJap

Kemie Guaida said:

I use fontsampler.js. If you're using wordpress, there's a plugin. If not it requires some configuration and technical knowledge. 

Thank you Kemie, the plugin has been removed from Wordpress unfortunately, thank you for sharing the link, I don't know it exist, . will play around to see if I can make it work. Thank you.

YenJap

Johannes Neumeier said:

The Wordpress plugin has been deprecated for a while now, and as far as I understand will disappear from the plugin index in a while due to lack of updates, as I haven't found the time and motivation to keep it up to date with the ecosystem. Feel free to use the more generic Javascript version linked above, though, which I have in active use on several sites. It's a "developer" facing library, but with the given samples/docs I've seen people make it work on various platforms.

Hi Johannes, thank you, yes, I was thinking to use your plugin, but I am bit too late. I don't know much about coding but I will try to use the Javascript version in the link Kemie share.