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FontTester - compare fonts side-by-side
by Jason Clarke Aug 22nd 2006
Another in line of web apps with URLs that go straight to the point, FontTester does just that - tests fonts. You get up to three columns, and therefore three different fonts can be displayed on-screen at the same time. It also includes a bunch of other cool typesetting features, like a full-featured character map, and advanced options like line-height and text-transforms (for example, SmallCaps). Of course, the best feature of FontTester is that once you've decided that your text looks the way you want it to, you can simply click Get CSS Code, and you are presented with a dialog giving you the ability to copy and paste your CSS, with the option of choosing Type, Class or ID selector.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
