Deciphering unknown fonts with 'WhatTheFont'

I might be alone on this one, but I can't tell yous how many times I've institute an interesting font while browsing around only to be clueless about what information technology is. With tens of thousands of font types out there, trying to figure out exactly what y'all've come across tin be a nightmare.

At that place is no end to the listing of "crafty" things I've tried while looking for an unknown font. I'm sure someone that'due south into graphic design or art in full general can relate, equally they're forced to decipher obscure fonts all the time. Yous know the common "tricks": pasting the text into a word processor in hopes that the formatting sticks, skimming the page's source code for a hint then on. Sometimes they piece of work - but oftentimes times the font y'all're after is in an image.

MyFonts.com hosts a service appropriately named "WhatTheFont" which can read and interpret an image of your mysterious font.

Ideally, the service suggests that characters in your image shouldn't be touching, they should take a distinct shape, be nigh 100 pixels tall and as horizontal as possible. After you upload the file, WhatTheFont will ask y'all if it chose the right characters for the letters in your image.

The side by side screen volition present you with a few likely candidates to compare with the original paradigm. Even if it doesn't find the identical font, it will show you some others that look close. If you like something you see, click on the image for more data, to play with some sample text in that manner, or to buy the font.

Although it has yet to fail me, if WhatTheFont lets you down, the site has a forum full of font geeks ready and willing to place your cryptic text.

Did you know?
Released by Microsoft in 1995, Comic Sans is so disliked today that at that place'southward even a movement to ban its use. Cheque out this great Wall Street Journal commodity near the font'due south history and its creator, Vincent Connare.