Recognizing a Font with help of 'Font Recognizers'

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is?
Now you can recognize fonts with help of 'Font Recognizers'. This can be done by uploading an image of the font which you want to know about.

 Lets begin with the tutorial "Recognizing a Font with help of Font Recognizers"

Many websites offer Font Recognition with an image upload facility. Upload an image with that font to the image up loader and wait for the results.

The websites which provide font recognition are:-

Websites

1 Identifont.com

IdentiFont

The Identifont expert system enables you to identify a typeface from a sample by answering a series of questions about key characteristics.

At each stage the left-hand column shows a list of the questions you have already answered. Click on a question to review the options, and optionally change your reply.

Finally you will be shown a list of one or more possible fonts matching your answers.

2 Whatfontis

Whatfontis

What Font is very similar to the previous service WhatTheFont! It allows you to identify sources using screenshots of the text itself, either by uploading from your hard drive, or giving the URL where the text you want to identify.

3 MyFonts

MyFonts

Software

A software for Font Matching is also available

FontMatch

FontMatch™ to the rescue! Instead of calling all the designers you know for advice on font ID, you can ask FontMatch™ to “look” at a sample and compare it to each font on your computer. FontMatch™ compares positive and negative space in a manner very similar to the way your eyes do, matching patterns to determine the best “fit”. After examining each font, it displays two images side by side: the one you supplied, and FontMatch’s best answer. Or you can scroll through each of the answers, and see a percentage for each one that represents the closeness of the fit. Unlike the online font identification utilities, this program matches only to the fonts that you already have in your computer.

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