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Text and writing tools collects editors, formatters and helpers for working with words and code. The listings cover plain-text editors, markdown tools, word counters, case converters, font references and proofreading helpers. Some are full writing environments, and others handle one small job in the browser. Notice where the work happens: on your device or on a server, how files are saved and whether the tool keeps a copy. A few run in a browser tab, which suits a quick fix, but if you paste private writing into one, check how the site handles data.
A site for exploring symbols, characters, hieroglyphs, scripts and alphabets across the Unicode table. It offers a complete Unicode table, one-click copy and paste, and tools including a text converter and emoji keyboard.
Universal Encoding Tool is a web-based utility that offers methods for encoding, decoding, encryption, decryption, conversion and hashing. It covers simple conversions between ASCII, binary, hex, decimal and Roman numerals, along with network tools for IP and IPv6. Non-key encoding methods, HTML entities, URL encoding, hash algorithms, key-based encryption ciphers, Unix time conversion and IBAN validation are also listed.
Universal Sans is a variable typeface system that allows users to customize and download their own sans serif typeface. It features six variable axes and a wide range of stylistic alternates to support many unique typeface outcomes. The platform uses automation to make custom type design more accessible by reducing production time and cost.
WhatFont is a tool for identifying fonts used on webpages. It is available as a bookmarklet, Chrome extension and Safari extension. When activated on a webpage, users can hover over text to retrieve font information, and the tool detects font serving services including Typekit and Google Font API. It supports Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9 and has limited support for Internet Explorer 8.
Calligraphr helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
dCode is a collection of over 900 online tools for solving games, riddles, ciphers, mathematics and puzzles. It offers word game solvers, a cipher identifier recognizing more than 200 ciphers, and tools for codes, alphabets, calculators and algorithms. The site states that it is free.
DeepL Write helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Detexify helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Voice Notepad is a speech-to-text tool that uses Google Speech Recognition to let users type with their voice in any language. It runs in Google Chrome and requires microphone access, and provides controls to start, copy, save, publish, tweet, email, print and clear the transcribed note. A text-to-speech section offers voice, pitch and speed settings.
FontForge is a free and open-source outline font editor. It is provided by a community of contributors, and the project offers documentation including a book titled Design With FontForge, an overview, a tutorial and technical references.
Fonts Ninja offers a browser extension that identifies fonts on websites by hovering over text. It reports details such as font size, line height and colors, and provides typeface information including designer, pricing, additional styles and supported languages. The extension is available for free on Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
FSymbols offers online font generators that produce text with cool fonts made from symbols and special letters, including big text art font generators. Generated text can be copy-pasted for use in online profiles and messages.
GlukFonts helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Grammarly is an AI-powered grammar checking tool. It identifies and corrects grammatical mistakes, typos, punctuation errors, and spelling issues, and provides additional writing assistance features for more than 20 languages.
OpenPaper is the official site for Paperwork, a personal document management tool. It allows users to scan or import personal documents, search for them using keywords, store files in a single synchronizable directory, and add labels for organization.
Papra is an open-source document archiving platform for organizing, securing and archiving documents. It offers organizations, document tagging, search, a developer API, webhooks, CLI and SDK, plus email ingestion that imports attachments. The project is available on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license and can be self-hosted. Paid plans add storage, members and intake email addresses.
Polona Typo helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
QuillBot helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
TextCleaner is a website that provides a suite of online text and document utilities. Its tools include formatters for programming and markup languages, font generators, QR code generators, and other text and document processing utilities.
Free WYSIWYG editor for TikZ diagrams in LaTeX. Users drag diagram elements and the corresponding TikZ code updates instantly without disrupting existing formatting. The tool works as a web application or a desktop app.
Count Duplicates is a free online JavaScript tool that aggregates pasted lines and shows the count of occurrences of each value. Results include unique values, occurrence counts, the total number of lines and the number of unique values. Output can be copied in TAB or CSV format for spreadsheets. Data is processed client-side in the browser and is not sent or stored elsewhere.
Font List helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Font Spring helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
FONToMASS helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
