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Type accent marks, diacritics and foreign letters online

Ever felt like typing øéæå€ẅûø♀♂☺☆½¼Δ©¥¢ ? Probably not, but I'll bet there's a few in there that you'd like to have available quickly! If you know your keyboard inside out you can actually type in a lot of these if you have the arcane skills, but most of us manage without. However, there's a funky little website called TypeIt which allows you to choose from 26 character sets such as Russian, Welsh, Maori, Esperanto and so on. Simply click on the character(s) you want, and then cut and paste them into your document.

CopyPasteCharacter.com

CopyPasteCharacter.com This is a fun little resource - lots of really neat characters and symbols that you can just cut and paste to use anywhere you like. For example: ♕☠☂ℌ Great ⒻƱȵ ! You can also log in and save your preferred set of charaters. There are hundreds of them!

WhatTheFont!

MyFonts. Cracking little site this one. Upload an image of a font and it'll do its best to tell you what it is. If it fails, post to a forum for experts to try and identify it for you.

Fonts 500

The top 500 free fonts from around the web. Download them one at a time or all 500 for $2.77 which is a pretty good bargain if you ask me!

1001 Free Fonts

Download Free Fonts for Windows and Macintosh. Lots of free and shareware fonts that you can download and install onto your WIndows or Mac machine. If you like browsing fonts this will keep you occupied for hours.

TypeNow

Themed Fonts Download Free Movie and Music Fonts. Over 300 in fact, all free and available for download. If you like playing around with fonts, this is a great site to visit.

What Font is

This?. Send them an image of a picture the font is in, or specify a URL and they'll try and tell you what it is. Nice simple idea.

CopyPasteCharacter

More weird and wacky symbols for use on Twitter etc. Not a huge number, but fun.

Letters & ligatures.

Letters & ligatures. Click & paste..Ever needed any strange/odd/unusual/rare letters or characters? This is a site that simply lists lots of them Click, copy, paste and you're done. Very clever.

How to type upside down text and letters on the web

How to type upside down text and letters on the web.  ˙ʇxǝʇ pǝddıןɟ ǝɥʇ ʎɐןdsıp oʇ „sɯ ǝpoɔıun ןɐıɹɐ„ ʇuoɟ ǝɥʇ sǝsn ǝƃɐd sıɥʇ ˙ʎןuo sɹǝʇʇǝן ǝsɐɔɹǝʍoן sʇɹoddns ןooʇ sıɥʇ os 'sɹǝʇʇǝן ןɐʇıdɐɔ uʍop ǝpısdn ɥƃnouǝ ʇou puɐ sɹǝqɯnu uʍop ǝpısdn ou ǝɹɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎןǝʇɐunʇɹoɟun ˙„ʇǝqɐɥdןɐ ɔıʇǝuoɥd ןɐuoıʇɐuɹǝʇuı„ puɐ „pǝpuǝʇxǝ uıʇɐן„ sʇǝs ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝɥʇ ɯoɹɟ ǝɯoɔ ɯǝɥʇ ɟo ʇsoɯ ˙ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ǝɥʇ uo ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısdn pǝʇɐǝɹɔ ǝʌ,noʎ ǝʞıן ʞooן ʇı ǝʞɐɯ oʇ 'pǝʇɹǝʌuı ʞooן ʇɐɥʇ sןoqɯʎs puɐ sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ ǝpoɔıun oʇ sɹǝʇʇǝן ɥsıןƃuǝ sʇɹǝʌuoɔ ɯɐɹƃoɹd ʇdıɹɔsɐʌɐɾ ǝɥʇ ˙noʎ ɹoɟ uʍop ǝpısdn ʇı suɹnʇ puɐ ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ sǝʞɐʇ ʎןdɯıs ǝɔɹnosǝɹ sıɥʇ