Font Testing Page

Stable releases available for use at http://www.impallari.com/testing

The Font Testing Page is a tool primarily intended for type designers to 'Drag and Drop' and quickly test their fonts into a browser. It can also be used by Type and Art Directors, Graphic Designers, Teachers and Students interested in seeing how a typeface works on the web.

There is a short video demonstrating this tool, http://vimeo.com/40296571

Operation is simple:

• Drag the font you want to try to the upper area of the Testing Page
• Add more fonts and you'll see their file names and file sizes as buttons

Below the drop area you see some buttons to select different layouts:

• Headlines: Displays examples: 72, 60, 48, 36 and 30 to 12.
• Text: Displays text blocks, from 20 to 10.
• Adhesion: Shows examples using only 'adhesion' text. Intended for the early stages on a typeface design.
• Hamburgefonstiv Examples using 'Hamburgefonstiv' text.
• Lowercase only: Displays examples of 72, 60, 48, 36, 30, 24, 18 and 16 to 10.
• Caps: Displays examples of words in Sentence Case at 60.
• All Caps: Displays examples of words in All-Caps at 60.
• Layout: Displays examples of Headline, Subhead and Body text.
• Kern: Displays examples of combinations of letters and miscellaneous signs.
• Latin: Diacritics for 103 Latin languages, pangrams and text samples.
• And many many more...

Notes:

• Requires Firefox or Chrome
• 100% safe: Your fonts are only stored in your own browser (using localStorage) and nothing gets uploaded to any server

Secret tips for the "Filter text" tool:

• When working on text fonts: Set the size to 18px or lower, and you will get nice blocks at all text sizes at the same time.
• When working on display fonts: Set the size to 200 and you get a small cascade, set it to 300px and you get a full cascade (Great for deciding on your font's spacing/fitting).

Developers:

To download the latest version and use it locally:

git clone https://github.com/impallari/Font-Testing-Page.git;
cd Font-Testing-Page;
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

Then visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 to see your local version of the tool.

Thanks:

• Inspired by Jonathan Kew's OpenType Playground made for Mozilla and FontDrag
• Initiated by Dave Crossland
• Developed by Pablo Impallari
• Designed by Pablo Cosgaya
• Kerning string by James Montalbano
• Kern King Tab content from http://logofontandlettering.com/kernking.html
• Pangrams from Wikipedia
• Armenian Pangrams by Hrant Papazian
• Latin Languages texts by Eduardo Tunni
• Latin02 Diacritics tabs from Context of Diacritics
• Cyrillic Version by Alexei Vanyashin
• Most Devanagari content by Girish Dalvi, Ek Type and Pooja Saxena
• Devanagari Dictionary words from http://sanskritdocuments.org/hindi/dict/eng-hin_unic.html (Thanks to Andres Torresi and Juan Pablo del Peral)
• Tamil Version by Tharique Azeez, text are from Niram blog
• Kannada Version by Erin McLaughlin, sample texts from Miguel Sousa's AdhesionText Kannada, and Kannada Prahba newspaper
• Telugu Version by Appaji Ambarisha Darbha
• Hebrew Version by Meir Sadan
• Malayan Version by Santhosh Thottingal
• And many more people that helped in one way or another (If I've forgotten to include your name, just let me know and I will add it).

License:

Code is available under the MIT License, see LICENSE.md for full details

Page text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 License