viziblr

All five of the readers of this blog may be familiar with my Segoe typeface comparison from 2010. That comparison document was half-created with code driving Visio and half manual editing. One of my projects was to make a *complete* tool to do this correctly and yesterday I made a lot of progress in that direction.

The tool is simple, it just asks the user to identify two fonts.

Once Run is pressed, starts Visio 2010 and starts drawing up a set of pages.

Here is an example of the output in VSD and PDF formats.

And some selected captures from the document…

The code is available on the viziblr codeplex site under a project called VisioFontCompare.

Some ideas for where to take this next:

• Allow comparing three fonts
• Enable selecting bold and italic styles
• User-entered text samples