If you’re reading this, it means Nice Web Type’s CSS (the visual instructions that make this outline look like a website) is not being applied. This can happen for several reasons. If you’re using Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, or some other old browser like AOL, CSS is off by default. If you’re using a modern browser and you’re still seeing this, please email Tim.
Handy tool from Matt Wiebe that lets you experiment with the typography of any CSS-typeset page on the fly, without refreshing or opening a new window. Check out this screencast, grab the bookmarklet, and start messing with typography you find online:
Read more about the Soma FontFriend project and contribute to its Google Code project page. This one was an instant bookmark bar item for me. Nestled right up there next to my URL shortener. Nice work, Matt.
Thanks Tim. Hopefully this helps people to make well-informed type decisions on the web.
Been a lot of fun for me, anyway! I’m working on the next version of Web Font Specimen, and being able to quickly exercise new ideas with lots of different typefaces has been handy.