Because I strongly believe that this year took a wrong turn when we collectively stopped using Comic Sans. Might have to bring that back.

Today's tech-letter includes a double hitter (i.e. two tech-tools for the price of.. none. Because none of you pay for this). Since the tools I share in this newsletter revolve around situations I've found myself in, I've got my fingers crossed that at least one of you relate to this situation.

In today's case, many times have I stumbled upon a website or a logo with a really attractive font. Sometimes it's easy enough to Google and figure out what font is being used, but many times you'll see people literally guess, and give you 5 fonts that look so similar. 

It's time to change that.

This first tool is to figure out fonts being used across a website. It's very straightforward too. Here's a quick HTML lesson though:

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a "markup language". It's used to display content in a web browser. HTML is.. structure. Think of it as a skeleton. HTML makes it possible for browsers to read content in a structural manner (which also makes it extremely helpful, specially to folks with visual impairment.

I'm sure you've come across HTML tags before, some of them might include h2, p, button, and so on. Generally, text is divided into headings (which there are 6 of: h1, h2, h3 ...), and paragraphs. 

The reason I've explained all this is to understand how FontOfWeb works. 

When analysing the font on "thetechletter.com", note the image above shows the font for h2, and the font for whatever <a /> is. This essentially means that one of the headings (h2) on my homepage, uses the Archivo font. The second font (also.. Archivo..) is for my a tags, which means all the links you see. If you saw a font for a p tag, that would be for the paragraphs, and so on.

So this is your first tech-tool. A website that can figure out HTML fonts for you, on any given website. But... it can't do logos. So.

Netflix, Facebook, Adidas, all use really good font-choices for their logo. I'm not a marketing person, but if those fonts were a person, I would want to be their friend (or maybe more than friends). 

With similar usability to today's tech-tool #1, Font in Logo lets you search a company name, and presents you with the details after; both on the company, and the font in the logo.

In this second tech-tool, you can even submit a logo and its font. If there's a known brand logo that's not currently on their platform, you can submit the details to it (feel free to submit the font for The Tech-Letter). 

Both of these tools offer a way to download the font too, which, if free, you can pretty much install and use anywhere. If not, you might have to pay for it, and then use anywhere.

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