Introducing my new utility website: large-type.com

By Dan Bader — Get free updates of new posts here.

Display and share text in a large font, directly from your browser.

I’m launching this new website I built. It’s called large-type.com.

It’s a utility website to display and share text in a large font, so people can read phone numbers, passwords, etc from across the room.

Imagine you want to give a friend your WiFi password and they need to type it into their phone. Instead of spelling the password out to them, you could just show them large-type.com on your phone or computer screen:
large-type.com/#P4$$w0rd.

Oh yeah, or you could totally use it to profess your love to someone from a moving train, too: large-type.com/#I❤U 😃.

There are a few other, even more geeky uses for the site that I’ve listed in the GitHub README. Anyway, hope you find it useful! Go check it out or head over to GitHub to help make it better.

This article was filed under: javascript, productivity, programming, side-project, and web-development.

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