You may well be familiar with one of these scenarios:
- your boss asks you to reproduce a document or design that is now only available as a half torn piece of paper from 1998.
- a client wants you to redesign their web site, but they don’t have their logo in digital font and instead hand you a business card with the words… “there’s the font for our logo”.
- you’ve seen a graphic on a web site that has inspired you and you want use the same font.
In today’s digital word, designer or not, you often find yourself trying to identify a font. You just know you have seen it before but can’t remember the font name.
How to identify a font
So how do you identify a font? Well this post will give you some links that will help in your font identification problems.
Whatfontis.com
Whatfontis.com
Whatfontis.com is a fairly new site with a nice easy design and layout.
All you need to do is upload a photo/scan/image of the font you’re trying to identify.
Visit Whatfontis.com
WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont
WhatTheFont.com is probably the most popular tool that people use to identify font names.
Again it works by you uploading an image of the font.
Visit WhatTheFont
Flickr Typeface Identification
Flickr Typreface Identification
Flickr, best known as the photo sharing site has a group of users dedicated to identifying font names. Take a photo of your font and some font guru will be along to suggest its name.
Linotype Font Identifier
Linotype FontFinder
This font identification tool is slightly different. Through a series of questions relating to the characterics of the font you’re trying to identify it determines the most likely font name. At time of writing it uses a database of 3764 fonts.
Visit Linotype Font Identifier
Identifont
Identifont.com
Identifont asks you a series of questions about the typeface appearance to identify the font name.
Visit Identifont.com
Type Navigator
TypeNavigator by Fontshop.com
Type Navigator is an online tool from FontShop.com. It’s an interactive visual font search system.
Visit Type Navigator
Typophile – Type ID Board
Type ID Board by Typophile.com
Type ID Board is a messageboard where you can upload an image of your font and the resident experts will help identify it for you.
Visit Type ID Board
Bowfin Printwork – Font-Spotter Service
Bowfin Printworks Font Spotter Service
At time of writing this free Font-Spotter service from Bowfin Printworks allows you to email or fax a sample of the font for identification.
Visit Font-Spotter Service
I hope you find these resources useful in your font hunting tasks. Please let me know your thoughts on any of these services by leaving a comment. Also see below..
Few days ago I was searching for a specific font that I once used to make a banner for one of my websites. I had lost the font from my system and all I had was that (.jpg) banner. I searched and I found it extremely time consuming to search and preview manually all the fonts from hundreds of fonts websites over internet for the one that I want and never found it .
While searching I landed on a really cool website “What the Font?!” with a smart font recognition system, means that you can upload any picture with the font you want to search and the website’s database matches your font (in your pic) with the fonts in its database.
1. Open WhatTheFont?!
1. Open WhatTheFont?!
2. To search the name of the font, upload the image having the font and click “Upload Image”.
3. You’ll be taken to next page, where image recognition system does its job, recognizing and separating each character from the image and displaying in the text box in front of each character.
If any character is ignored or not recognized, you may insert the character manually in the boxes to get more accurate results.
4. Click Search button in the bottom of the page, to proceed to next step, where all the relevant fonts are displayed.
Move the browser’s scroll bar, to move your image over the searched fonts previews for matching.
5. Click the Font’s title which you think is the most relevant. On the next screen you have the option to buy the font since none of the fonts are available free to download! 
Just note the font’s name in case if you don’t want to spend your money, and open UrbanFonts to search and download fonts from its huge collection for FREE!!
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