There are millions of fonts available for use in a webpage. If you own a website or blog, you may know the importance of font selection for your website content so that readers can easily read the text on your website. Sans Serif, Georgia, Helvetica and Arial are the most common fonts used in webpages today but you can always choose to mix different fonts to give your readers a better online reading experience.
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When choosing right font for your website, you should take a look at what font the popular online magazines on the Internet are using. Now If you like the fonts on their webpages and want to use on your website, you will have to find out the font family. Identifying the fonts isn’t a difficult task. In this post I’m going to tell you the easiest way to get information about the text style in a webpage. Today a lot of extensions and tools available on the Internet that lets you identify the fonts but none of them are as fast as WhatFont.
With WhatFont, it’s now much easier to get font information about the text in a webpage. You just need to hover over the text and it will tell you the font name, and again clicking on the text will get you the font size, font family, line height and color in a dedicated pop-up window with a ‘X’ button (to exit the window) at the top right.
WhatFont is now available as a bookmarklet that can be used in all browsers and also as a extension for Chrome and Safari browser. WhatFont Chrome extension, when installed, adds a new button on the browser toolbar that works the same way as bookmarklet, and the same with Safari browser.
So now whenever you want to find out the font information of the text in a webpage, just click the bookmarklet button or extension button to activate WhatFont, and then simply hover or click any text in the webpage to identify its font family, size, line height and color in a jifffy. Say no to all other similar extensions, as WhatFont is the fastest and gives some extra information.
There is also a tweet button in the pop-up window that will let you instantly send the information about the font to your Twitter account. WhatFont provides you the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage. Webmasters and designers should definitely take a look at this browser tool. You can install WhatFont from this link.
Avi Singh is the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Avitricks Group. An Engineering student and a Social Network Addict who loves sharing useful information via blogging. Catch me on Twitter @avitricks. 