Nov 27, 2013

Get beautiful fonts, or weird fonts. Make your work stand out

Typography makes your work stand-out – this is as sad as beauty defines character, but that is true in most cases. Making your website/blog functional and full of useful content is important, but also important is how professional, funny, good-looking the content is. The content should also be easy to read on multiple devices with varying real-estate.
Typecast does all this and more. Typecast provides thousands of fonts that can be used across your website or just for sections that need highlighting.
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Since the real power of fonts is only visible in sentences and paragraphs, Typecast also has options to type in the required content and see how beautiful or ugly your content looks in 1,2 or 3 columns with an option to change line heights, text size, text color and background. You can also edit the CSS and see the results instantly.
After doing all this hard work it is easy to put this to work. You can:
  1. Get code that can be directly embedded in your website
  2. Save CSS and HTML
  3. Export as a graphic file (PNG)
  4. Publish a style guide with the chosen colors, size, spacing
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The only sad thing – this comes at a cost, starts at $14.50/month for personal plans. You can get a 15 day trial by just providing your email id (no confirmation email!).
google-fonts

If you are not in a position to spend hard cash, don’t get disappointed yet. Head towards Google Fonts.
There are hundreds of web fonts that are free to use, and you by how much the fonts impact page load times. One of the other good things about this - you can click on “Popout” window for any of the fonts, and get to try how they look in Typecast.
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