Nifty Font Tool
Not that the need for this comes up often, but I found this really cool tool online that I thought I'd share. I was browsing this quilting site on my iPad, and the text displayed in a really beautiful font. Since the iPad is running Safari, I didn't have a web inspector handy to tell me what font it was. When I pulled up the site in Chrome on my laptop to check the style sheet, it came up in a different font; the style read 'Comic Sans MS', cursive. Clearly the iPad was not rendering Comic Sans. Strangely enough, I couldn't find a reference that would tell me the default cursive font for Safari, and I didn't see it in the list of iOS fonts. (It was listed there, however; the only reason I didn't see it was that the font wasn't installed on my MacBook). In any case, my search led me to a site called Identifont, which has a great tool for identifying a font by its appearance, simply by answering a series of questions. It was amazing, and worked perfectly! The font turned out to be Snell Roundhand. It's quite pretty.
