Thursday, May 04, 2006

Type tease

Ahoy all ye font pigs: typestester

Leading, colour and em-action — this snappy little online application lets you compare screen type.

1 comment:

Violet Chrome said...

Lurvely: CSS Font.

I don't know why, but I'm rather fascinated by all things CSS.

Playing with CSS is like playing around with the word order of a sentence to enhance the design of its meaning. By extension, I guess HTML would then be the alphabet (though I haven't fully worked it out because I'm bashing off this reply while I eat my sandwich and pick lettuce out of the keyboard — eww).

The way you can endlessly and simply trick out html with some CSS ingenuity — like turning a simple bulleted list into a tabbed menu — is so damn cool and awe inspiring.

And then you have CSS Font guy. He saw the puzzle in the design and worked a font out of it. In most cases, I think CSS play has turned into a hobby gone awesome.