Designer
Plaything

The Standalone Web Typography and Colour Testing Tool

CURRENT VERSION: 1.1

LAST UPDATED: 26 OCT 2007

Designer Plaything 1.0 Feature List

Feedback is welcome on Designer Plaything's features, so if there is a feature you would like to request, you discover a bug or simply want to tell me about how you have used this tool, please contact me by email.

Headline Options:

  • Change headline font
  • Change headline length
  • Change headline case
  • Change headline font size
  • Change headline tracking (letter spacing)
  • Change headline kerning (word spacing)
  • Change headline leading (line spacing)

Body Copy Options

  • Change body copy font
  • Change body copy length
  • Change body copy font size
  • Change body copy tracking (letter spacing)
  • Change body copy kerning (word spacing)
  • Change body copy leading (line spacing)

General Article Options

  • Change article width
  • Change number of article paragraphs
  • Change length of article paragraphs

Colour Options

  • 1 click access to full 256 colour web safe pallet
  • Use over 16 million coluors by directly entering hex values
  • Change page background colour
  • Change article background colour
  • Change headline font colour
  • Change body copy font colour
  • Validate all colour combinations against both W3C and Hewlett Packard contrast and brightness recomendations

Portability

  • Single XHTML file that can be accessed directly from your desktop and emailed to clients or designers
  • Works across different browser platforms
  • System independent