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Wordmark.it lets you clearly preview fonts installed on your computer
It's delightfully simple: visit Wordmark.it, type your word or phrase into the text box at the top, and click "load fonts". Before you know it, a wall of beautiful fonts will appear, making the process of picking the right one so much easier. You can make the samples bigger or smaller, too, or even invert the text so that it's white-on-black.
Incidentally, if you use Word 2007 or 2010, the font selector actually applies the font to selected text as you scroll through the list. Photoshop, on the other hand, doesn't -- which is why tools like Wordmark.it exist!
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Subscribe to commentsRon FrancJan 10th 2011 12:01AM
"Photoshop, on the other hand, doesn't"
Oh noooo!!! you guys are wrong: Photoshop does.
Are you kidding me, Sebastian? You've never touched Photoshop then?
Sebastian AnthonyJan 9th 2011 4:42PM
@Ron Franc How...?
DarkManJan 10th 2011 12:47AM
@Sebastian Anthony
1) Start a blank document. (CTRL+N)
2) Choose Horizontal Type Tool (T); Write whatever you want in the body of the document.
3) Make sure after you finish to write, that the Text Layer is the Layer highlighted in blue in the Layers Panel
4) Now go to the Text navigation toolbar on top, DON'T click the drop down arrow to choose the font. Click inside the white area to highlight the font name, then all you have to do is scroll up or down with your mouse. As you do that, the texts in the document will switch accordingly to the font your mouse is scrolling on to give you a preview in real time ... pretty much like Word.
Sebastian AnthonyJan 10th 2011 8:05AM
@DarkMan Hey! That's pretty cool.
I think that probably comes under the 'hack' designation, though -- really, you are still selecting fonts, it's just a lot easier than individually clicking.
Not to mention, depending on how your scroll wheel is set up, you are probably scrolling through 3, 6 or 9 fonts at a time :)