How to find the right font without knowing its name?
I am sure that any designer had such a moment when he saw somewhere some kind of font that could be useful in the project, but ... what kind of font? .. The answer to this question is hidden in the depths of your mind, or the depth of your "ignorance" (which is, of course, forgivable).
In this article, we will look at several resources that can help you identify the font you like.
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Of course, one cannot expect that these sources will give you a 100 percent certainty that you will find the right font, but what will help is for sure.
Graphic Design Blog is a useful resource, but it can only help if you know the name of the designer or the studio that created the font. The list of studios and designers is very extensive and the font search is simplified many times. But what to do if you see the font for the first time?
What The Font is a well-known resource that will help you find a font by the loaded picture.
I can say that quite unexpected results are obtained.
Step 1: Upload a picture. If a picture with background noise or with insufficient contrast, be kind enough to spend a few minutes in Photoshop to bring the picture to mind.
Step 2: After downloading the picture, check that What The Font has correctly identified the glyphs, and only then press the "search".
In short, GLYF is a graphic image of a sign. One character can correspond to several glyphs; the lowercase “a”, the capitals “a” and the alternative variant of the lowercase “a” with a stroke are the same sign, but at the same time they are three different glyphs (graphemes).
On the other hand, a single glyph can also correspond to a combination of several characters, for example, the “ffi” ligature, being a single grapheme, corresponds to a sequence of three characters: f, f, and i. So for the spell checker, suffix will consist of 6 characters, and the graphics processor will display 4 glyphs on the screen.
First I uploaded this picture:
In the search results, What The Font gave me 24 options. To honor What The Font, I can say that some of the fonts from the list were similar to Adobe Garamond Pro.
But I downloaded a small picture.
Increasing the size of the picture (maximum 360 by 275 pixels), the list has shrunk dramatically:
Minion Regular Small Caps & Oldstyle Figures
Minion regular
Adobe garamond
Where, as you can see, the correct font was also found (although not quite precisely between Adobe Garamond and Adobe Garamond Pro, there is still a difference, albeit small, but there is), if I had increased the size of the image even more, the identification would pass successfully, but I was already too lazy to check.
If What The Font could not determine the font, then its forum , the residence of font gourmets, will help you, where you will be surely helped with the search.
Excellent community, a huge amount of resources, blogs, news related to typographic culture. There is even a typography wiki.
Yes, Typophile does not have an automatic font identifier, but the existing community will help you much better than some program.
Another great typography site. One name speaks for itself. Extensive blog content, frequently updated news and reviews.
The Fontshop approach to defining a font is original: first you define the general shape of the font, then incrementally, you answer increasingly complex questions.
This service is good, not only as a tool that helps identify the font, but also as an excellent tool for finding the right font for your project.
This site gives a new campaign to search with a relative result. Identifont asks questions like "Do letters have serifs?" Or "What shape are serifs?"
After that, Identifont will try to give an answer based on the questions asked.
Yes, of course, to determine the unknown font is not easy. No one knows for sure how many fonts were created in the history of typography. Anyway, it definitely is among hundreds of thousands of fonts.
The process of finding the right font can not be called useless. During the search, you will find a lot of interesting, not only for some specific font, but in general for its fellows.
Although, this is already a philosophy, since this rule can be applied to any business.
Have a good search!
Free and simplified translation of the article - Identify That Font .
In this article, we will look at several resources that can help you identify the font you like.
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Of course, one cannot expect that these sources will give you a 100 percent certainty that you will find the right font, but what will help is for sure.
What is the Font ?!
Graphic Design Blog is a useful resource, but it can only help if you know the name of the designer or the studio that created the font. The list of studios and designers is very extensive and the font search is simplified many times. But what to do if you see the font for the first time?
What The Font is a well-known resource that will help you find a font by the loaded picture.
I can say that quite unexpected results are obtained.
Step 1: Upload a picture. If a picture with background noise or with insufficient contrast, be kind enough to spend a few minutes in Photoshop to bring the picture to mind.
Step 2: After downloading the picture, check that What The Font has correctly identified the glyphs, and only then press the "search".
In short, GLYF is a graphic image of a sign. One character can correspond to several glyphs; the lowercase “a”, the capitals “a” and the alternative variant of the lowercase “a” with a stroke are the same sign, but at the same time they are three different glyphs (graphemes).
On the other hand, a single glyph can also correspond to a combination of several characters, for example, the “ffi” ligature, being a single grapheme, corresponds to a sequence of three characters: f, f, and i. So for the spell checker, suffix will consist of 6 characters, and the graphics processor will display 4 glyphs on the screen.
First I uploaded this picture:
In the search results, What The Font gave me 24 options. To honor What The Font, I can say that some of the fonts from the list were similar to Adobe Garamond Pro.
But I downloaded a small picture.
Increasing the size of the picture (maximum 360 by 275 pixels), the list has shrunk dramatically:
Minion Regular Small Caps & Oldstyle Figures
Minion regular
Adobe garamond
Where, as you can see, the correct font was also found (although not quite precisely between Adobe Garamond and Adobe Garamond Pro, there is still a difference, albeit small, but there is), if I had increased the size of the image even more, the identification would pass successfully, but I was already too lazy to check.
If What The Font could not determine the font, then its forum , the residence of font gourmets, will help you, where you will be surely helped with the search.
Typophile
Excellent community, a huge amount of resources, blogs, news related to typographic culture. There is even a typography wiki.
Yes, Typophile does not have an automatic font identifier, but the existing community will help you much better than some program.
FontShop
Another great typography site. One name speaks for itself. Extensive blog content, frequently updated news and reviews.
The Fontshop approach to defining a font is original: first you define the general shape of the font, then incrementally, you answer increasingly complex questions.
This service is good, not only as a tool that helps identify the font, but also as an excellent tool for finding the right font for your project.
Identifont
This site gives a new campaign to search with a relative result. Identifont asks questions like "Do letters have serifs?" Or "What shape are serifs?"
After that, Identifont will try to give an answer based on the questions asked.
Yes, of course, to determine the unknown font is not easy. No one knows for sure how many fonts were created in the history of typography. Anyway, it definitely is among hundreds of thousands of fonts.
The process of finding the right font can not be called useless. During the search, you will find a lot of interesting, not only for some specific font, but in general for its fellows.
Although, this is already a philosophy, since this rule can be applied to any business.
Have a good search!
Free and simplified translation of the article - Identify That Font .
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