One of the many annoyances of web design is having to pick a nice font for your web site that isn’t Arial or Times New Roman or Helvetica. Sure you can take your chances and pick a nice font that you found on your computer, but remember that everyone else in the world may not have it installed on theirs…and as a result, instead of your web page displaying that cool font it will default to another font like…Arial…Times New Roman…or Helvetica.
Fortunately, there’s a neat tool on the web that can help you choose and format your fonts. Typetester, an online font comparison tool allows you to choose and view different types of fonts side by side. It has a list of fonts that are common to all computers as well as list of fonts that are common on Windows machines and on Apple machines. You can also test out all of the neat typography tricks that graphic designers love to tweak, like the adjusting the leading and word spacing and adding font decoration. And by using the side by side comparison feature, you can test different fonts and settings with each other. Very useful…be sure to check it out!
