Need to identify a font?

[jc8654]

If you ever need to find out which has been used in a PDF, website hosting or image, I found a very helpful web site hosting which can identify then for you.

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

You simply take a screenshot of the font or use a previous image, upload it to the server and it gives you options of all the fonts it could be. So far it's been extremely accurate for when I've used it!

It's a very hand tool as well when someone doesn't have an electronic version of their logo and it contains text. Most people have no idea what the font is and this way it allows you to build the logo up again, matching the hard copy version.

[eukrobert]

That is an excellent service thanks for sharing i just hope it is accurate enough.

I honestly can't imagine this being very accurate but deffo worth a try!

Many thanks

Robert

[jc8654]

I was very surprised actually! I put a pretty grainy and nasty image into it and it still picked the font up! So it seems pretty good. And it allows you to see the image and font next to each other to check them. So even if the computer gets it wrong, you can tell.

[eukrobert]

Originally Posted by jc8654

I was very surprised actually! I put a pretty grainy and nasty image into it and it still picked the font up! So it seems pretty good. And it allows you to see the image and font next to each other to check them. So even if the computer gets it wrong, you can tell.

Ah, thats a clever idea of comparing at least you can personally see

Im going to have to give this a try!

Cheers

[schoolbag]

Thanks! It is really a helpful site, it is a useful post! I am going to try it! Currently, I don't have any unknown fonts, but I will give it a try!

[DPS Computing]

Thanks for that Jonathan!! Very useful and impressive .