Matt Langtree

A new project that I’m currently working on is SHRT.TW. This one I’m keeping pretty quiet for now.. If you are a web/application developer or a mac user expect shrt.tw to be an integral part of your daily workflow. Check back over the next few weeks for updates on the status of this one.

Sites that require a file upload to occur as the main functionality, are a little restricted on the iPhone. The folks at myfonts.com have circumvented this by offering an iPhone app that allows you to upload photos to their font-matching service (WhatTheFont) from either your iPhone camera, or from existing images in your iPhone Photo Gallery. 

The WhatTheFont website is one of the most useful tools by far, in any graphic designers/web developers toolkit. Next time you are away from your Mac/PC and you see a radical/groovy/cute/funky/quirky or modern font on a poster or a menu, just whip out your iPhone and snap a pic and get a font match.

*I tried this on my jail-broken version 2.0 firmware  iPhone with no luck, although it is most likely that this is because I’m not running firmware version 2.2.1 (current at time of writing).