How to Identify an Unknown Font

Matthew Sabia brings us a couple tools that can help you determine what font someone is using on their website, printed material, or otherwise.

By either taking a screenshot or scanning a document in, you can determine which font is used easily through a web app called "WhatTheFont" by MyFonts. This tool analyses an uploaded image and matches it to one of the many different fonts in their database automatically.

Another handy web-based tool for identifying a mystery font is Indentifont, which asks you a series of questions about the characters in order to narrow down which font you may be dealing with. Identifont can also help you find a font by entering even part of its name.

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[RainoBoy97]

WTF = WhatTheFont

[GGGiL00]

didn't know this was possible, it's gonna be really helpful

[theiphonegirl1]

Thank you soooo much!!!

[mattjsrules]

AWESOME!

[TheMatt7000]

@Hi675445 I'm not sure lol. The real Harry Potter font is called "Parry Hotter" - Google it ;)

[ILikeDaComputer]

This is the same technology used to break the captcha that Chris has talked about before.... the id for the vid is KOWDHFOQS04

[Hi675445]

will harry potter font work lol

[lakospeter]

@cateye27 We don't really use the font tag anymore, so it's a better way to check the css (Inspect element in Chrome / Safari).

[cateye27]

(Correct me if I am wrong but,) I think you can do the same think with text by right clicking in the browser and choosing "View Page Source." Then if you press Ctrl+F, and type "font" you can get the same thing. The image font method is very cool. There you go, much faster.

[Glennoboyo]

You dont need dual monitor when you have the snap feature

[Gosox2525]

@ivanovandort typing in caps is fuckin annoying, using the word fag is hate speech, and there is no such thing as google explorer. And those admins do not read these