It's like that paradigm where the most fundamental step gets skipped when giving help to others and instead you learn the most difficult step in a painstakingly meticulous way. For instance, when teaching how to write an essay to fifth graders (or do you learn this in sixth?), teachers tend to explain what a paragraph is like this: "A multi-sentence structure where they serve together to talk about one topic. They're indented and look like this. Seen them before right? Okay. Now let's move on to writing the thesis." And we all know how awfully difficult it is to formulate that perfect thesis; you don't even know what the true meaning/purpose of a thesis is until like three years after you start writing the dreaded 5-paragraph essays. And maybe you don't even know how to correctly pronounce the word, haha. Yet this topic of writing the perfect thesis is broken down into steps and drilled into you every single time the teacher assigns an essay assignment.
But the sad part is... When you get your essay handed back... All of the red comments are on errors regarding paragraphs: how the paragraphs were split wrongly; the paragraphs are missing the topic sentence; or the paragraph transitions are clunky. UHHHHHHH. Dear teacher, you NEVER taught me how to write a goddamn paragraph.
Same deal here. There's a ton of materials and resources on how to pair web font groups and which work the best and where to go (eg. Google Fonts), but no quick-and-easy, two-step process to find out what font is what...
...Ladies and gentlemen, meet WHATFONT TOOL!!!!!!!
Download the Chrome extension HERE and then FONT AWAY!!!!!! It's FREE!!!!! (#wtfmoment) I believe that there is also a version for Safari if you click HERE.
You just turn on the WhatFont tool, and then hover over any thing to know which font it is. Then you can CLICK on it to open up the box to know more details (like PIXEL SIZES and LINE HEIGHT!!!!!!! and even WEB COLOUR CODE) as so:
I will now proceed to tweet Chengyin Liu to thank him for such an awesome tool. You can, too. Let's show gratitude... Also click the link if you are curious (like me) of how this holy WhatFont tool guy looks like... cuz you know that's not creepy at all........
Source: giphy.com
...And let the weekend begin!
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