New (version of) close-up font comparer: versus
Alec Jacobson
July 31, 2009
Today, I coded up Versus, a close-up font comparer. The original version (somewhat inspired by the documentary Helvetica) was written in straight html and css (with a little php to generate new phrases). The were a lot of problems with that version... Most importantly it only seemed to run on my browsers on my machine (some of the renderings --- especially on IE browsers --- were quite comical). The new version is all java and runs beautifully in a browser applet on any machine and any browser with java enabled. It also lets you choose fonts to compare from a list of fonts you have access to on your machine. I also included a "full screen page".
Tell me what you think and leave ideas for improvements.
Note: For anyone interested here's the source code.