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Friday Favorite: WhatFont, a website font analysis tool

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 23rd, 2011)

If you're the type of person who looks at the design of a webpage, you'll want to download and install WhatFont. WhatFont is a straightforward tool, designed by college student Chengyin Liu, that apparently parses the CSS of a website and pulls out the font used in a section of text. It also ...

Macworld 2010: TypeDNA

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 13th, 2010)

On the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any ilk. TypeDNA is a series of plugins for Adobe CS4 applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) which makes finding ...

TUAW giveaway: Typewar for 10 lucky winners

by Steven Sande (Feb 2nd, 2010)

If you read our little review of Typewar yesterday, you already know that it's an elegant and fun game for iPhone and iPod touch. Now you have a chance to win one of ten copies of Typewar in a TUAW giveaway. All you need to do is leave us a comment telling us what your favorite typeface is. ...

Xcode 3.2 Daily Tip: Restoring Monaco

by Erica Sadun (Sep 4th, 2009)

It's a Menlo world in the new Snow Leopard Xcode. 10.6's Xcode uses the Menlo Regular-11 font for the standard Xcode template. If you miss Monaco (and I know I did), it isn't hard to restore the look and feel of Xcode 10.5's defaults. That's not to say there's anything wrong with Menlo. Menlo is a ...

ID that font on the go with WhatTheFont for iPhone

by Robert Palmer (Feb 11th, 2009)

If you're a graphic designer, hopefully you're familiar with WhatTheFont, the essential service from myfonts.com that helps identify a font from a photo or other bitmap image. Now, MyFonts is bringing that power to the iPhone. With WhatTheFont for iPhone, you can take a picture using the iPhone's ...

TypeDNA to pick up where other font management software leaves off

by Robert Palmer (Jan 7th, 2009)

TypeDNA is previewing its advanced font management software at Macworld booth 4037, and gave TUAW a sneak peek. TypeDNA (also the name of the product) is cross-platform, standalone font management software that also includes some advanced features to help you select fonts based on similarity and ...

Safari for Windows: Mac vs. PC Font smoothing

by Mat Lu (Jun 16th, 2007)

One of the first things users noticed about the new Safari for Windows beta is that Apple is using their own font smoothing technology (found in OS X) instead of the Windows standard ClearType. Joel Spolsky has an interesting discussion of the different approaches Apple and Microsoft use with ...

The Little Things: anti-aliased fonts help Mac OS X shine

by David Chartier (Sep 8th, 2006)

Continuing our new The Little Things series that highlights the often-overlooked polish and underrated features that make Mac OS X such a joy to use, I thought I'd highlight one of those 'guy behind the guy' features that makes Apple's OS so gorgeous: font anti-aliasing. Nerdy, I know, but check ...

TUAW Tip: make friends with Mac OS X's Font and Color palettes

by David Chartier (Jul 17th, 2006)

One of the things I'm sure we all love about Mac OS X is how integrated so many of the apps and services are with each other, but did you know that integration can stem all the way down to the fonts and colors you use amongst your apps? In almost any input-based, Cocoa-written app you're running ...

Widget Watch: Type Cast font preview and info

by David Chartier (May 30th, 2006)

This is one of those widgets that makes me wonder why Apple hasn't already made one. Type Cast is pretty simple and straight-forward: it's a font preview widget from Code Line Communications, makers of Art Director's Toolkit (amongst other things). This widget isn't short on capabilities either; ...

Typographica's favorite fonts of 2005

by Scott McNulty (Dec 28th, 2005)

Typographica, a journal of typography, is listing their favorite fonts of 2005 in a two part series. If you're anything like me you have a number of fonts littering your Mac that you have accumulated from various websites. Typographica gives the nod to Liboa, Freight, Ministry Script, Garamond ...

Linotype FontExplorer X updated

by David Chartier (Dec 22nd, 2005)

We've mentioned the most excellent (and free) Linotype FontExplorer X here before, and I figured its most recent update was worth a mention. A host of new features, updates and bug fixes have been issued including: Illustrator CS/CS2 plug-ins, copying to clipboard from the font preview will copy ...