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Filed under: Design, Freeware, web 2.0

Fontspace Offers Free Social Font Downloads

We love free fonts, but sometimes the process of finding half-decent ones can be pretty annoying. Fontspace.com tries to smooth out the rough spots for free font junkies.

Instead of simply categorizing fonts, Fontspace uses the good ol' tagging system - which provides easier access to similar fonts. The broad categories on some other sites (sorry DaFont) often lead to large, tiresome lists that require a boatload of time to sift through.

Registered users can also add fonts to their favorites ; thi can be extremely useful in the event that someone - your husband , for example - accidentally forgets to back up your fonts before a reformat.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters

The Rather Difficult Font Game - Time Waster

The Rather Difficult Font GameYou just have to love an online game that knows exactly what it aims to be. And the concept of this game is, well, rather difficult. The Rather Difficult Font Game tests your ability to recognize typefaces by showing you a piece of text and then four font names. Your job is to correctly choose the correct typeface.

As with any multiple-choice test with a limited set of answers, this game becomes rather less difficult as you go, if you're careful to remember what you've already seen. While we're certainly not font experts, by process of elimination we were able to score an 18 out of 30 on our first try.

Like any good time waster, this one can be done relatively quickly, like maybe during your coffee break. And if you are the type of person that feels guilty about the time you spend playing time wasting online games, you can tell yourself that at least with this one you're learning something. Whatever lets you live with yourself, right?

Filed under: Design, Text, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Freeware, Unix

FontTester - compare fonts side-by-side

FontTesterAnother 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.

Font Tester CSS download dialog

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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, ...

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