Cool. Having to reclick the questionmark to hide the help box is a bit cumbersome.

Wow, great, thanks a lot!!!

I'm glad if it's helpful!
Frode: Updated – now clicking anywhere in the help window itself (or the question mark) hides the help.

Updated by popular request (over on Facebook) to allow for custom base/fill characters, and not just single ones but 2-character combinations too.

Also, Craig has pointed to this alternate site that does something similar:
http://www.gestaltungssache.at/buchstaben.php?gen=1
… which I didn't previously know about.

Edit: Is there a common sentiment that allowing for fill strings of arbitrary length (>2) would be useful/wanted?

This might be a good place to ask about other useful online string generators. Besides the Gestaltungssache site just mentioned, I know of and use these:

- Just Another Foundry's: http://justanotherfoundry.com/generator
- Miguel Sousa's Adhesiontext: http://www.adhesiontext.com/

Others?

Not a text generator but a useful set of kern test words: Leslie Cabarga's Kern King

Nina, does it work properly with Polish characters?

Should absolutely work, Janek – at the moment you just need to insert spaces between your input characters (maybe I should get rid of that requirement? Dunno)

Excellent! Thank you very much. Super tool :)

Just thinking aloud: one difficulty of having to include a space between each input character might be that it won't allow output strings to show how the wordspace actually fits with other characters, which might be a helpful facility.

Hm. Yeah, right now the wordspace is stripped out of input strings. There IS however a wordspace (nonbreaking space, actually) included in the "punctuation" set (between the endash and the underscore); would that do?

Edit: An advantage of using a delimited list (be it by wordspace, or comma – I personally find wordspace more intuitive) is that it's possible to input multi-character entries, for instance HTML entities such as (drum roll) & nbsp ; (in one word) for a nonbreaking space. :-)

I see. That's probably good about the wordspace. Also it works fine in the custom_base field.

You know, if you wanted lots of extra work (yay!), you could have an HTML palette to input those &clunky; &HTML; &entities; &that; &I; &can; &never; &remember;

http://mbtype.com/wordlist.php

Here's mine, though I wrote it before I discovered the Tim Ahrens generator, which is superior in many respects. Mine will generate longer lists, I think. It can also generate lists using Fontlab glyph suffixes (e.g., /H.sc /E.sc /L.sc /L.sc /O.sc)