Type-X

About

Type-X is a browser extension that makes it easy and efficient to test your fonts on any website. 

Type-X is for you if you are...
• A designer who wants to easily test how different fonts might look on the web.
• A type designer who wants to see and test your work-in-progress fonts in a new and very helpful way – instead of analyzing a font in the abstract, you can experience it as a reader and user.
• Someone who simply prefers to read information in a certain typeface, whether for accessibility reasons or simply due to personal preference. For example, if you have dyslexia, you might want to use a specific font, such as Atkinson Hyperlegible or Shantell Sans, to read comfortably. Or, maybe you just just prefer to read in e.g. Times New Roman. Now you can experience more of the web in your favorite font!

Type-X allows you to...
• Browse comfortably to experience your own fonts in context, with blazing-fast font injection and a one-click override.
• Use your local fonts or add custom font files directly to test real web font files – WOFF2 included. (All fonts stay on your own computer, and nothing is uploaded to any server, etc).
• Test variable fonts, inheriting multiple existing weights and styles from a website, to preview how the weights of that font behave.
• Take full control over how you apply your fonts with custom CSS selectors and styles.
• Avoid "tofu" from icon fonts with preset and custom selectors to ignore icon elements.

Type-X is an open-source extension. It doesn’t require any kind of user account. There are no trackers, and it collects no data, even for analytics. No ads will ever be added. Your fonts stay on your computer, cached in your local browser. 

Type-X began as an experimental project by ArrowType, to test in-progress fonts in a new way. Much of the development of this as a full-fledged extension was enabled by generous financial support from the Google Fonts team, because it is used to develop fonts commissioned by Google. And so, a huge thanks goes out to Google Fonts for making this extension possible!

Ultimately, this is a tool made by type designers and developers who wanted a good tool to test fonts on the web. It is shared freely because we have collaborators and colleagues who also find it useful.

You can browse the extension’s code, see the contributors, and file bugs and questions at github.com/arrowtype/type-x