To recognize a font, one typically uses a font recognition tool or font identifier. These tools work by analyzing an image of the font and matching it to known fonts in a database. Popular options include:
- WhatTheFont by MyFonts: Upload an image of the font to get matches from their database. It offers both web and mobile app versions for iOS and Android. It also lets you type your own text in the matched fonts for preview.
- WhatFontIs: Uses AI to match your uploaded font image to nearly 1 million fonts, including commercial and free options. It has features like image editing for better letter separation.
- Identifont: Identifies fonts by asking questions about visible features like serifs, shapes of letters, designer, or publisher.
- Adobe Fonts Visual Search: Upload an image to Adobe Fonts service that uses image recognition to find matching fonts that you can add directly to Creative Cloud apps.
- Font Squirrel Matcherator: You upload an image and highlight the text to get font matches. It allows manual correction to increase accuracy.
- WhatFont Chrome extension: To identify fonts used on live web pages simply by hovering or clicking on text.
These are convenient and practical methods to recognize fonts efficiently from images, screenshots, or websites by leveraging sophisticated font databases and AI.
