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Have you ever seen text with a font you like very much on an image and wondered how the font is found from an image ? Usually the problem is that unless you are an expert graphic designer, you rarely understand what kind of font it is. But over time, several free tools were born that you can use to recognize a font.

With the sites that you list you will be able in a very simple and fast way to recognize fonts starting from an image and to be able to download them.

Whatthefont

WhatTheFont is certainly the most famous, and the first site that was born for the recognition of the characters used starting from a jpg. It is certainly the most professional as a font recognizer, but there are very strict rules to help it identify it, so before uploading the image you must follow these rules:

  • The characters must be well spaced and the letters must not be touched.
  • The height of the letters must be 100 pixels.
  • You have to transform the image so that the text is as horizontal as possible.

Once the image is inserted and correctly cropped, the software will give you a very complete list of similar characters, but if there were difficulties for the app to recognize the character , you can type the word in the box “enter your text “and if you're lucky the program should be able to find the font in this step.

But if you are unlucky and the software does not find the font you can send it on the forum and it will be reviewed by online typography experts who can ask which font is what you are looking for, and when it is found you will receive an email with the information and a link to download it.

Likefont

Another great tool to search for a font from an online image and LikeFont, a fairly recent website. Its peculiarity is that in addition to finding many matching fonts it is able to signal the similarity in percentage of each character it identifies. If you cut the image you want to upload very precisely, it can recognize the font very precisely. This program is a Chinese app, and therefore has the advantage that it is able to recognize online fonts even from Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Whatfontis

Another very good tool and WhatFontls . Just register and then you can upload the image with the character you want to identify. After you insert the image, the app gives you a list of characters which are very similar to the ones you are looking for.

To use the font identification program you have several tools available. You can upload a file containing a font sample, a screenshot, directly to the url of the site that uses the font you want to find or simply use the search for fonts from an image option and drag the image into the box.

You also have an extension for chrome if you are not interested in finding the font from an image, but you are interested in recognizing the font directly on the website.

Fontidentifier

FontIdentifier is a program made available by FontSquirrel which is able to recognize a font from an image. Very similar to WhatTheFont, as it also requires a very precise cropping of the image, but it is able to find many fonts that are potentially very similar to what you were looking for.

Once the image has been inserted following the parameters indicated by the application, the software asks you to highlight the text you want it to be identified. The program will give you options on how to download free and paid fonts that are very similar to the ones you require.

Fontedge

This program is relatively new for online font recognition, but it doesn't seem to disappoint, so I recommend you try it out. Just click on the image icon to upload your photo with the font you want to identify. At the bottom you can choose the letter on the image that you want it to be used as a sample, and once the program finds the type of character that is closest to you, it gives you an example of how it will look. The only “flaw” of this program is that it requires the use of Flash Player, so if you want to use it you have to download the software from the Adobe website.

Quora

You will ask yourself: what does Quora have to do with it and how can it identify a font ? Within the response program, there is a category of character identification in which it is possible to upload the image and ask the experts if they are able to identify it. Being a very large community made up of great professionals, you can be sure that you will find an expert who can identify the font you have requested.

Conclusion on How To Find Image Fonts

Sooner or later you may have wondered how to identify a font . Thanks to the tools I have shown you, finding out the name of the font you need during the creation of the website design, or to create a captivating writing on an image will be much simpler.

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