The Font Comparer

I'm working on a small site to compare web fonts. Check out Fontcomparer.com.

The idea is to make it as easy and quick as possible to compare web fonts. To me there is a huge benefit in using these fonts embedded with javascript over just stating font-family with CSS. The reason is that when using only CSS the end user must have the font on his/her computer to be able to view it correct.

To solve this issue before images has been used instead. But that's not a good solution both because of performance and that the text can't be read by search engines for example. There's been workarounds and services like Cufón. But to me it's with services like Google font directory and Typekit we can use nice and more fonts as easy as it should be.

The Font comparer is really light weighted and did not take to long to develop. No php, no database only HTML/CSS and jQuery.

There was a huge increase in traffic after it was mentioned on Twitter by Smashing magazine. And that inspired me to make some improvements today.

Now I'm looking into adding more fonts and also adding some functionality to customize the fonts more.

Feedback or suggestions are really appreciated!

Dec 12 2010

I have a Typekit account, but

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/12/2010 - 15:27.

I have a Typekit account, but I can't figure out how to get Font Comparer to display more than the two free account fonts. Please explain how this works.

Hi. I'm working on adding

Submitted by viktormiranda on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 01:36.

Hi. I'm working on adding more (hopefully all) Typekit fonts to Font comparer, but I currently only have Typekits free version. Letting users use their own Typekit account would be nice, but I think it would be to much of a hazzle for the user to add fontcomparer.com to their Typekit account, which would be needed for it to work.

Agree with u! Welcome to

Submitted by gag (not verified) on Tue, 12/21/2010 - 06:55.

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