Font Identification For Web and Graphic Designers

By TechWiz on March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Web Design  | 1 Comment
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When I’m re-drawing logo’s for clients, or even checking out some web sites for inspiration, I often get a font that I think “What Is That?”. I often eliminate the usuall suspects (Arial, Tahoma, Impact, Times New Roman etc.) but then I’m left with over 2000 choices. To speed the process up, I use a great tool that’s free on the net. Identifont.com is the website I use. Now I know there are plenty of Font identification websites out there, but I find this particular one suits my needs as I believe it will suit others.

It’s simple to use, you just hit the Identify Font link on the front page and you can insert (Case Sensitive) the characters that you have of the font. From there, you will be asked a series of questions that will help narrow their list down for you. I’ve found that most of my searches yield about 30 choices for what the font maybe, and ussually it’s in the first five. Check out their website if you need identification for those nasty hard to find fonts.

http://www.identifont.com

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One Comment on Font Identification For Web and Graphic Designers

  1. Mark, Ars Logo Design on Wed, 17th Jun 2009 12:16 pm

    2. Here is a very interesting resource: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ it allows you to upload a font image and its font recognition systems show the matches in its database.

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