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Select Font with AMP Font Viewer

Creativity is not the only part of design. An appropriate font used is important too to enhance a piece of art.
However, choosing a font from hundred(thousand) over installed font types is kind of frustrating. :(

By using AMP Font Viewer to select a font, it definitely will save your precious time and energy.

AMP Font Viewer

This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories. Some of its features are:

• Supports TrueType and OpenType fonts (Windows 2000/XP required for PostScript OpenType fonts)
• Supports Type1 fonts (Windows 2000/XP required)
• Installation of fonts from a folder (one by one or from a list).
• Installation of fonts temporally (until the program is closed).
• Deletion of installed fonts.
• List of all installed fonts with several display options.
• List of the fonts from a folder with several display options.
• Several options for organizing fonts in categories and managing them.
• It can print a list of all or some of the installed fonts with an example of each font.
• Scratchpad area for testing the look of any font (installed or from a folder).
• Dual English/Spanish version.

This freeware also got a few awards from Nonags, SnapFiles, Its Free 4 U.Com, Featured in, Lockergnome and SnapFiles 2004 Most Downloaded Freeware Font Tool.

[Download AMP Font Viewer]

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Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers

Have you wondered what kind of font style is used by other bloggers? What are their blogs’ font size, color, font-family, margin and text-align?
I did a small research on font style used by few famous bloggers before I modify my font style on k-director dot com since my last theme layout updated. To have appropriate font style in your website is not only can increase your reader’s reading speed but also makes your blog in a tidy layout.

These are what I got for my research:

JohnChow.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
background: #d5dbe1;
margin: 0px 20px;
font: 76%/1.6em verdana, tahoma, “lucida grande”, sans-serif;
color: #333;
text-align: center;

LiewCF.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font-size:62.5%;
font-family:‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background-color:#d5d6d7;
color:#333;
text-align:center;
margin:0;
padding:0;

Problogger.net
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font-family: “Arial Narrow”, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
letter-spacing: 1px;
margin: 10 0 0 0;
padding: 0;

JohnTP.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
font:62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;
color:#333;
background:#444;
text-align:center;
margin:0;
_margin:0;
padding:0;

HongKiat.com
Font Styles Used by Famous Bloggers
color:#000;
font-family:Tahoma, “Myriad Pro”, “Myriad Web”, Arial;
font-size:1em;
text-align:center;
vertical-align:top;

I increased k-director dot com’s font-size to 12px with font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif’. I hope you all will have a comfortable experience while reading my content.
If you find it is difficult for you to read such a big font, leave me a comment to complain it.

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1 Week of Art Works

This is awesome. Everything was finished within 1 week.

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Web Design Collection - CSS Mania

If you are a web designer/interface designer/multimedia designer, then you must pay a visit to this site - www.cssmania.com.

CSS Mania
This website contains a series collections of nice design websites. If you are doing something on web, multimedia or interface design, you’ll find inspiration and knowledge on CSS Mania.

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