How do you identify fonts? You search the internet, you ask on forums, you email designers, you call friends, or you use the software?
There are nice communities on Reddit, Quora, Facebook, and other places, but even so, you cannot rely on them to identify fonts. At least not fast and not 100% accurate.
Most font identification options for sure take you a lot of your time and generate headaches.
Font identification was a very complicated task before some very powerful software appeared. It took hours, days, or even weeks, and the results were usually terrible.
There are way over 1 million fonts out there and many times fonts are extremely similar, with very small design changes.
Of course that font identification was complicated without artificial intelligence.
So how can you identify fonts with ease, in a matter of seconds?
We will tell you more about the most popular font identifier software on the market and we will show you how to identify fonts with this tool, from pictures, and from the web – emails, newsletters, documents, and websites.
The name of this font identifier is WhatFontIs.
It is 100% free to use, and you don’t need to register if you are in a hurry and you want just to identify a few fonts.
What makes WhatFontIs unique and so popular:
- A huge database of over 700k indexed fonts.
- It is the only software that identifies both free and paid fonts.
- WhatFontIs works with all font foundries, including Google Fonts.
- Font identification is very accurate.
- For each identified font, WhatFontIs offers you over 60 free and paid font alternatives.
- With this software, you can identify fonts from pictures, but also from websites, emails, newsletters, online documents, landing pages, etc.
- Free to use, even without registration.
How to identify fonts from pictures, for free
WhatFontIs opens a huge door for all of us. With this font identifier software, we can now identify all the fonts we like, from any picture.
Imagine that you see a font you like on a car, on a t-shirt, on a book, etc, and that you can identify it in a matter of seconds, for free.
This is what WhatFontIs will do for you.
Here is a complete guide to help you identify fonts from pictures.
Step 1 – Go to www.whatfontis.com
To get started, visit the software website.
Step 2 – Upload the picture to WhatFontIs.
There are several ways to do that:
- Upload the picture by clicking the pictogram.
- Drag & Drop your image
- Write the picture URL.
- Copy-paste the image.
Step 3 – Crop and select the text
The software identified and selected the first word – Golden. Select the whole text by enlarging the text box.
Step 4 – Optimize image
Now you will select the image with more clear text (character color darker).
The software recommends you the left option.
Step 5 – Insert Characters
The last step is to insert the characters accordingly. Only 6-8 characters are needed but if you want to help the software, you can add them all.
If you register (free and quick), the software will automatically insert the characters in your place.
Before you hit next, in the left part of the screen is a very important option.
Click on Display all fonts and you can select if you want to see all the fonts or only the free ones, or only the free commercial ones.
There are several options there.
Take a look.
For the first time, I recommend you let the option “Display all fonts” selected.
Step 6 – Font identification
At this step, the software identifies the font for you, offering you the following information:
- The name of the font.
- Where to get it from.
- If it is free or paid and the price.
- Over 60 free and paid font alternatives.
It is extremely useful that WhatFontIs offers you a multitude of free and paid font alternatives.
Sometimes you will identify a font that is more expensive than you want to pay for, and this software feature will help you big time.
This is how you identify fonts from pictures.
The process is very simple, quick, and accurate. The interface will guide you every moment.
PRO Membership
If you identify fonts daily or very often, you should take a look at the PRO Membership.
It is very affordable, the price is 39.99$ per year (first 7 days are free) and it has cool benefits:
- Auto character recognition system
- 80 fonts in results
- Save results
- Get help on forum and more…
- Custom text preview
- Google fonts search – They suggest free alternatives to expensive fonts
- Zero Ads
- Filtering fonts by price and foundry
How to identify fonts from the web – emails, newsletters, online documents, and websites
To identify fonts from the web, you will install WhatFontIs Google Chrome Extension.
It looks like this:
The installation is free and quick.
After you install it, you will find WhatFontIs icon in the upper right part of your screen.
To identify fonts from a website, follow these steps. It is the same process if you want to identify fonts from emails, newsletters, online documents, etc.
Step 1 – Go on the website you saw a cool font. I will visit SmashingMagazine.com
Step 2 – Click on WhatFontIs icon, in the upper right part of your screen. This is how you activate the software.
Step 3 – Move the mouse over a text and “CLICK TO GET SIMILAR FONTS” or click anywhere to get a print screen.
The process is instant and simple.
Now you can identify all the fonts you like, from all the websites you visit and like.
Conclusions
Font identification is simple with WhatFontIs, and absolutely free, no registration needed.
Using this smart and efficient software, you will identify all the fonts you like. Make your own fonts library and use them in your projects.
Supercharge your websites, landing pages, and emails, with the cool new fonts.
Give WhatFontIs a try.
