Hi there,
In the coming months I will re-design my website and I would like to know if there is an Open Source or commercial Font Tester out there you can recommend? I'd rather not choose rented systems like the one offered by P. Bilak.
I remember I saw one in the past but I can't find it anymore.
TIA.
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Real type rendering in the browser is certainly the way to go in the future.
Anyway, they are offered in Fontdeck, Myfonts and Fontshop.
@Ralf: What I don't like about the Type-Applications tester is that it is a renting scheme (and also you must use iframes)
We have a super simple solution for this, but you could also make the OT-features available.
http://lettersfromsweden.se/typetester
The actual lines say »Click to change (the font)«, so I click them and expect to be able to change the text. Then I even see a selection there and - again - expect to be able to type to overwrite that selection. But it doesn't work. I am supposed to use the smaller input field above.
It would probably be more intuitive to make the texts itself changeable.
Above there is a box: "Type here..."
But I’m also thinking of updating it to something similar as http://www.mckltype.com/retail/fort/
which I think is an even smoother way of changing both text and fonts.
If it's live web type anyway, than that MCKL way should be no problem. Having an additional input box was only necessary for bitmap renderings.
If anyone is wondering how that that text scaling is done in Göran’s last link. That's “BigText”. I wrote an article about it a while ago: http://opentype.info/blog/2012/07/05/webtext-100-percent-width/
Best
Rodrigo
Why would you need a generator/exporter?
But I think the master webfont should be crafted manually first, and that is the main and most important work.
- Convert the PS-outlines to TT-outlines
- TT-Hinting (Manual or Half-manual depending of the type of use)
- Stripping OT-features if necessary
- Remove some of the least important kerning pairs to save file size
Who said that was revolutionary? Rodrigo asked and I answered how I create a professional webfont from a Postscript source file.
Those kind of comments you just pulled remind me a lot of the bullshit on Typophile.
It was my pleasure to play around with Medusa.
Latest Firefox and Chrome: Full support. Tested.
Latest Safari: Only kern, liga and calt at this moment. Tested. (Hopefully more in the future)
Latest IE10: Full support, at least in theory. Not yet tested.
His main concern was to have 'kern', 'liga' and 'calt' turned on. So, we are covered on that ones.
The big advantage I guess is you can not (or I couldn't) find fonts files. Almost every single font tester (even the big ones, big foundries and font sellers) is vulnerable and I don't know that they know that or not. Select a font and the user can extract the font and download it. I know people "should not" do that, but they still doing it. For example in this case (re-type.com), you can download all the fonts in couple of minutes which I think was not the purpose of creating a font tester.
Really like to have this topic going live again.
There's a bunch of ideas for improvements on my list for the Wordpress plugin, but if you find anything in particular (esp. in regards to Persian, which I have zero experience with) feel free to message me here or open a ticket, so we can implement it for the benefit of all users.
Hope MS let me open-source it.