I’m always on the lookout for new fonts, they can say a lot more than just plain words alone.  Typography is an artform its-self, started by the newspaper industry carving out letters for the daily newspapers – most of today’s modern fonts owe it to these original purveyors of stylistic word-sculpting.

Taking a fresh look at things once in a while is a great thing, breaking away from the norms and “Web 2.0” as its coined is one of those evolutions in consciousness that was just waiting to happen (to this day we’re still waiting for Economy 2.0, since you can’t ignore to see the downturn kicking in).

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If you are looking for a new font for website or other design project, Fawnt absolute is a delightful place. Fawnt is a font resource for web designers and developers! It lists quality fonts in nice speech bubbles coupled with a scrollable interface to make navigation easy. The 55 most popular fonts from almost 10,000 fonts offered by Fawnt are display at front page. You can also browse the fonts by letters or by category, and it allows you preview and rate each font as well.
http://www.fawnt.com

Having trouble with the right font style for your sites? Typetester is a handy online application for comparing fonts for the screen and was built for web designers. Typetester lets you perform side-by-side comparisons of a number of popular fonts. The list of the common fonts will be updated when the new fonts are bundled into operating systems. There is a number of customization options. You can custom the sample text, font, color, background, size, alignment and more, and then real-time preview the style. Once you find the design you like, it would generate a CSS stylesheet which you can cut and paste directly into on your websites.
http://typetester.maratz.com

An em is a relative measurement based on the square of the font size at that particular point. As font sizes can vary across differing systems and displays the result is that the em measurement will always be relative and scalable.

Em Calculator is a simple and handy em calculator that converts px values to em values based upon the current font-size of the text. You can also set margins and paddings automatically depending on the line-height you’ve defined.