![]() ![]() I like font x, but I want something a little more rough around the edges, or I want something with a double-storey “a” - that kind of thing. I often use it for a slightly different purpose: finding similar typefaces to those I’ve used before. Takes a different approach with relative success. It includes a useful section of so-called Special Earmarks - a typeface’s or character’s most distinctive characteristics very useful for identification. I’ll be offering one of these as a prize soon, so subscribe to ensure you don’t miss out.Īnother title that I can heartily recommend (not from FontShop) is Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder, by Gordon Rookledge et. However, if you’re really interested in type, then reserve a place in your bookcase. Weighing in at 3kg, with 32,000 type samples, it’s more of a yellow monster of a book. Something else I can recommend from FontShop is the FontBook. Again, this is not only a good tool for font identification, but for finding new typefaces for your projects. Though Typophile does not have an automated type identifier, it has a great forum of dedicated and friendly type-geeks.Īlthough, as its name suggests, you can shop for fonts, the content recently has expanded to include a good blog, a free magazine, and really up-to-the-minute typography news and views.įontshop’s approach to font identification is a general to specific one you first identify the general form of the characters (glyphs), and then answer increasingly more specific questions about their form. This forum has a very high success rate!Ī community of … typophiles that has numerous other resources, blogs, typography-related news and even a typography Wiki. If your sample isn’t identified, then you can submit it to the What The Font Forum, a place inhabited by type-nuts, who will often go out of their way to identify your typeface. So upload the largest sample you have (maximum image size is approx 360px wide). However, when I uploaded a slightly larger version of the same image, it was identified correctly. Initially I uploaded this image, a thumbnail of the header image for this blog:Īnd What The Font suggested, among others, Magna T Light and Freight Text Book which, to be fair, are pretty similar to Georgia. If the sample image has a lot of background noise or is low contrast, then spend a minute in PhotoShop, to lighten or remove the background and increase the contrast.Įnsure that What The Font has correctly identified the glyphs, then hit “search”: Where What The Font is particularly useful is that you can upload samples of your type, which it then attempts to identify within a matter of seconds. If you know the designer or foundry, then it’s usually very easy to quickly identify the font. As with most of the sites I list, here you can search by foundry, designer or name however, that’s rarely very useful. ![]() MyFonts’ What The Font is perhaps the first place to turn to. Although none of the following resources is infallible, they will definitely give you a head start. So where to turn? Well, rather than publishing my Art Director friend’s email address here, I’ll introduce a few resources to get you started. However, in recent years, even he responds with, I don’t have a clue. Ever seen a typeface (font) you like but couldn’t identify it? I once knew an Art Director who was able to identify just about any typeface I showed him.
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