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

YenJap
YenJap Posts: 4
in Type Business

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!

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  • mitradranirban
    mitradranirban Posts: 104
    https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4761/recommendations-on-building-a-foundry-website is a thread that discussed various options 
  • Kemie Guaida
    Kemie Guaida Posts: 22
    I use fontsampler.js. If you're using wordpress, there's a plugin. If not it requires some configuration and technical knowledge. 
  • Johannes Neumeier
    Johannes Neumeier Posts: 399
    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
    YenJap Posts: 4
    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
    YenJap Posts: 4
    edited February 27
    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
    YenJap Posts: 4
    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.

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