If you are reading this it is because you belong to group of designers that at some point in their lives they have begun to ask questions about the font type and the typeface used in a brochure, card or label.
To help you a little with this, today we are going to show you some tools that will help you to recognize the fonts that the images have in order to know which typeface it uses and thus not be left wanting to use it too.
Tools to find the typeface you need
As there are applications that allow us identify the different color rangesThere are also tools that can help us identify a font.
Many times we tend to go beyond the true importance of typography and end up choosing one of the default options, but with a good typography you can achieve great things and change the perception that someone has about a document or a job. At the end of everything, it is very important and although the content is perfect, the design will also influence that your page is successful or that your presentation has a positive impact on the attendees, so choosing a good typography that highlights our personality can bring us lots of benefits.
In the internet world we can get many pages that offer us various types of free fonts, but when we find a typeface in a magazine, photo or on another page, it is not always easy to determine which one was used. As we can see, determining a font is not an easy job, even more so if we are beginners and do not know much about the subject, but in this case technology can help us a little.
Now we will talk about the tool WhatFontIs, this is completely free and allows us to identify the fonts in a simple way, all we have to do is take a picture of the font we want to find outThen we will upload this photo to the server in GI, PNG or JPG format and after processing the image it will give you the answers.
The only condition they ask for is that the image does not exceed 1,8 megabytes and an advantage is that we can filter the results as a free or paid typeface.
Another tool is identifont, but this is not as accurate as the previous one, this page works by asking questions about the source, and then giving you a source similar to the one you are looking for. The page has images so that we can guide ourselves and know which is the desired font.
But on the other hand is WhatTheFont, this has a similar system to the first, we just have to upload the image in BMP, JPEG, GIF or TIFF, having to be no larger than 25 characters, then the tool analyzes letter by letter to see if the font is correct.
We can also choose TypeDNA, which is similar to the previous one and selects letter by letter, but this will ask us to select each letter to be able to safely identify that the letter does not have more elements selected and thus avoid errors in the scan.
find my font is a desktop application that can help us to find fonts, this is a paid application but it has a demo option that can help us to know how it works and we can think about buying it.
If you use Firefox you can find Font Finder, which is a highly rated browser extension, the positive part is that gives us the results faster and that it is very easy to use. We can also choose to WhatFontIs, This is one of the most used worldwide, you only have to upload a photo in TIF, JPG or PNG, but you can also put the URL where you saw the font that caught your attention.
As you may have seen, there are different tools that can serve us very well when it comes to getting the font or typography we are looking for.