Web site Typetester lets you perform side-by-side comparisons of a number of popular fonts. This is a really handy tool for anyone who scrutinizes over typeface, especially if you’re not exactly a font expert. Beyond that, Typetester is great for budding web designers, allowing you to export your tweaked font settings to CSS, which you can cut and paste directly into your stylesheet. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Blogger John Hicks, the designer who put together an attractive, OS X-like skin for Bloglines , has now done the same for Google Reader. The tweak works on almost any browser, and the author has detailed instructions for installing it (on Firefox, you’ll need the Stylish extension ). If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!