The guys at lapin-bleu.net made a sexy little program called the textorizer that generates an image made made up of text. By inputting a sample image and adjusting certain settings such as font and number of strokes, the application outputs a PNG and a SVG (vector) of a texture of text resembling the image. There’s even a textorizer group on Flickr.

Ever have trouble finding what font to use in your project of website? Flippingtypical.com is a neat online tool where you can type in your phrase and display it in your computer’s fonts. Call it a font visualizer if you like. Interestingly, it doesn’t show graphical representations of popular fonts–its actually the fonts installed on your system.

An interesting idea from European communications agency SPRANQ: a font that uses less ink. The Ecofont, which is basically the common Verdana font with holes in it, can supposedly use up to 20% less ink. Works best in sizes 9 or 10. You can download the free font here.