Have you ever seen a font that is being used in an image that looks very nice and you wonder what font is that? Asking for people in graphics forums if they know what font is that is like looking for a needle in a haystack since there are probably tens of thousands or probably more! 4 years ago I posted an article on how to identify fonts being used in images using Identifont and WhatTheFont. Here is another addition to the online service called “What Font is” where it is able to identify unknown font and also finds an alternative if it couldn’t find the exact one.
I have given What Font is a try and it was able to identify what font that is used by Gary Simon when he was designing the Raymond.CC logo. The whole process took less than 3 minutes and all you need to do is either upload the image or specify the URL link to the image. You can then set whether to display only free fonts, commercial fonts or both and finally whether the background color is lighter or darker.
The next step is pretty important as you have to check every image and input the black character in the image. If you see incomplete black character, you can drag one image over another to combine the shapes. As for images that doesn’t look like a character, just leave the box empty. Finally click the Continue button for What Font is to process and identify the font. What Font is will display the first 100 fonts that look like the image you uploaded and if the results are wrong, you can post it to forums by clicking on the link that says “Wrong results? Post the image to forum!”
There is a limit of 1.8MB image size that you can upload. Some of the tips that can make the identification more accurately is to make sure that the text is horizontal and not touching. The resolution for the letter must be over 80 pixels for best results, the background color must be lighter than the characters color and making the image grayscale. Minimum number of characters is 2 and maximum at 10.