What is the name of this font

What is the name of this font

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.

Post Updated May 2018

Fonts.com

Find out the name of a font by answering questions about the characteristics shown within your typeface sample.

Visit: https://www.fonts.com/id/by-sight

Whatfontis.com

What is the name of this font

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

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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

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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.

Visit Flickr Typreface Identification

Font Matcherator

Upload an image of the font you want to identify. Claims to be the most robust font detection tool available.  “Matcherator excels with powerful technology and features under the hood, and allowing you to match OpenType features”

Visit: FontSpring Matcherator

Linotype Font Identifier

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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

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Identifont.com

Identifont asks you a series of questions about the typeface appearance to identify the font name.

Visit Identifont.com

Type Navigator

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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

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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

What is the name of this font

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.

How do I find out a font name?

How to Find a Font Name if it's on a Website.
There is a hard way and a simple way to find out the name of a font on a website. ... .
Then simply hover over any text on a webpage, and the name of the font pops up. ... .
Then simply hover over any text on a webpage, and the name of the font pops up..

What is the name of fonts?

MS Trebuchet, ITC Avant Garde Gothic, MS Arial, MS Verdana, Univers, Futura, ITC Stone Sans, Gill Sans, Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica. Greek fonts. Attika, Typiko New Era, MS Tahoma, Monotype Gill Sans 571, Helvetica Greek. Cyrillic fonts.

How can I identify a font from an image?

How to identify fonts in an image.
Download the photo or copy the URL where the photo is hosted..
Go to the Font Squirrel website..
Click Upload image if you have the photo on your computer. ... .
Now crop the image to highlight the text on the image. ... .
Now click Matcherate It..
You will see a bunch of options below the image..

How do I identify a font in English?

Just upload an image, click the font you want to identify, then check out the results. For best results, upload a good quality image, and make sure the text is horizontal. We'll detect the text in the image automatically, then you can click the font you want.