Friday, 6 May 2016

10 Online Typography Tools for Website Designers

     With the existence and increasing use of minimalism in web designing, Typography is trending in the web designing world.

      In the latest websites, we are seeing five different typographical trends which are either mutually exclusive or combined with one another that are given as follows;
·        Extreme Size
·        Custom typeface
·        Artistic fonts
·        Superimposed on images
·        Simple typefaces with creative design
Importance of Typography
         Fonts are very powerful in branding a term in people’s mind rather than words as different fonts and typefaces carry a lot of meaning regarding the brand or product. Hence Typography can be easily manipulated as it communicates well the tone of  different people which results in successful branding.
Online Tools to create Aesthetic Typography
         Here, we have given some online tools which will help you to create efficient typography and clean readable text for your websites.
1.     Typeplate
           Typeplate does not make charismatic designs in fonts and typefaces but it defines efficient markup with extensible styling for many typical and common typographic patterns. This tool is also comprised with library of templates and offers the web designers to choose their required ones based on their design patterns.
2.     Lettering.js
          TheJquery plugin  helps the designers and developers to create typography by taking control of it as web developers can easily modify the design and coding themselves.
3.     Typebase.css
          The flexible Typography tool which provides all necessary elements for good typography. Typebase.css is comprised with both less and Sas versions. Hence it is easy to make changes and then embed with any web projects.
4.     FitText
         This is specially designed for making large sized texts. You can make only huge texts with FitText. Designers can create headlines that is scalable for devices of all layouts.
5.     Lining,js
          This is supported by different browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Safari  and many others. Lining.js empowers Web Designers to take control over web typography.

6.     RuckSack
          RuckSack allows the designers to create typography with responsive feature in font sizes that can automatically resize the typography for browsers in different sized layouts.
7.     SlabText
          SlabText suppoers you to create longer headlines as it calculates the number of characters to divide and set in each row which in result the headlines will perfectly fill in the horizontal space allotted in your web page.
8.     TypeScale
          TypeScale helps you to try  and preview different fonts and sizes for headlines, paragraphs and others in an efficient manner without any restrictions.
9.     Blast.js
         With this Typography tool you can separate texts to make web typography easier to manipulate as Blast.js contains 4 built-in delimiters as follows:
·        Element
·        Character
·        Word
·        Sentence
10.  GutenBerg

           Gutenberg allows the designers to make aesthetic typographic styles by modifying and setting the base type size, line height and width. It is simple and flexible to use for Website Designers and Website Developers.