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Free Website Tools

Google has launched a web fonts site that lets you browse through hundreds of free, open source fonts that are optimized for the web. You simply pick the fonts you like, review them used with actual text (no lorem ipsum), then click the ‘use’ button. You can choose from plain, bold, italic and see the impact on page load time and then download the fonts, or simply add a snippet of code to the header of your website to refer directly to the font.

Choose from dozens of different ‘styles’ (like alligator, acrobatic and bubble) of ASCII text you’d like generated at network-science.de. You can also choose the width of the final result, a mirror image and alignment. Here are some examples of what this ASCII generator can do:

As a web designer you can never have too many fonts; take a look at the free fonts at Fontstock for some new fonts you could include into your next design. As with all freebies, you should read the terms and see where and how you’re allowed to use them. This site also offers instructions on how to install the fonts on PCs, Mac and Linux systems.

Test three different fonts side-by-side, before applying them to your site at TypeTester. Choose from dozens of different typefaces, sizes, alignment, background, color etc.

SearchFreeFonts offers thousands of fonts in dozens of categories.

One of our favorite free font sites: Beautiful free fonts from modern to classic at UrbanFonts. 3D, Adventure, Arabic, Asian, Beveled, Brush, Calligraph, Dirty, Embossed, Foreign Languag, Handwritten, etc.