Find my font by picture free#
Though Typophile does not have an automated type identifier, it has a great forum of dedicated and friendly type-geeks.Īlthough, as its name suggests, you can shop for fonts, the content recently has expanded to include a good blog, a free magazine, and really up-to-the-minute typography news and views.įontshop’s approach to font identification is a general to specific one you first identify the general form of the characters (glyphs), and then answer increasingly more specific questions about their form. This forum has a very high success rate!Ī community of … typophiles that has numerous other resources, blogs, typography-related news and even a typography Wiki. If your sample isn’t identified, then you can submit it to the What The Font Forum, a place inhabited by type-nuts, who will often go out of their way to identify your typeface. So upload the largest sample you have (maximum image size is approx 360px wide). However, when I uploaded a slightly larger version of the same image, it was identified correctly. Initially I uploaded this image, a thumbnail of the header image for this blog:Īnd What The Font suggested, among others, Magna T Light and Freight Text Book which, to be fair, are pretty similar to Georgia. If the sample image has a lot of background noise or is low contrast, then spend a minute in PhotoShop, to lighten or remove the background and increase the contrast.Įnsure that What The Font has correctly identified the glyphs, then hit “search”: Where What The Font is particularly useful is that you can upload samples of your type, which it then attempts to identify within a matter of seconds.
If you know the designer or foundry, then it’s usually very easy to quickly identify the font. As with most of the sites I list, here you can search by foundry, designer or name however, that’s rarely very useful. MyFonts’ What The Font is perhaps the first place to turn to. Although none of the following resources is infallible, they will definitely give you a head start. So where to turn? Well, rather than publishing my Art Director friend’s email address here, I’ll introduce a few resources to get you started. However, in recent years, even he responds with, I don’t have a clue.
Ever seen a typeface (font) you like but couldn’t identify it? I once knew an Art Director who was able to identify just about any typeface I showed him.
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