Typophile

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I just found this type widget on Apple’s widgets download area. I’ve used it a little bit, and it’s quite nice. It responds quickly and gives you a nice area to check out your type as you want to, check out the basic character set, and go to the font file itself, which is nice.

Here’s an example of the typing preview (notice the lack of kerning) and an example of the character set preview:

(EDIT: I have no idea how to put images in the post anymore, so I’m listing them, I guess.)

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That’s pretty sweet.

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i think for now the sneakiest work around for posting images to the forums is to create a free flickr account and link from there.

(ignore this hairbrained suggestion)

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an example:

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Well, that didn’t work…

;)

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Is it a goose in a snowstorm?

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:^o oh sheesh. I took a phone call and completely forgot to follow-up. How embarassing.

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Hehe. Here’s an example.

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