A handy font viewer. How to determine the font in the picture. Applications for online font recognition
The NexusFont font viewer will help you choose the right font for your system. Enter text and the application will display the result of applying this or that font to it. Sets the color, size and style of the font, you can select the color of the background. In the results table, you can mark the fonts you like and, using the "Selected" filter, select the font from the ones you like the most. Fonts applied to text can be printed on a printer or exported to an image file.
The NexusFont Font Viewer can install and uninstall fonts on the system. The utility provides detailed information about the font, the font properties contain the name of the font, version number, vendor, copyright information for the font, the location of the font file on disk and its size. The program has a search function for fonts, the ability to select font sorting, NexusFont tools allow you to quickly open the system font folder, the character display window, search for duplicate fonts and use the font backup folder.
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Looking through the network any materials, we can pay attention to the font used to display such texts. We can wish for the same font for ourselves, while having no idea about its name, and how to obtain such information. In this article, I will analyze the available network tools for online font recognition from a picture, and also tell you how to use it.
Specifics of network resources for identifying fonts
First of all, I would like to emphasize that the vast majority of online resources currently available on the web have an English-language interface. The Russian-language segment in this regard is poorly represented, therefore, to determine the font, it is necessary to use the existing English-language counterparts.
And if the recognition by these tools of fonts made in Latin letters is at a good level, then the identification of Cyrillic fonts from an image is significantly lame. In the latter case, you can only hope for luck, or turn to the forums of professional designers, where they will help you in identifying the font you need.
The very process of recognition by photo is carried out in two main ways:
- Automatic - you upload an image with a font to the site (or provide a link to such an image on the web). You mark the text for identification on the picture, click on the button to start identification, and you get options for the matches found in the database;
- Text - you answer the site's questions about the font you are looking for in text mode, and then get the result.
Let's take a closer look at the network tools for font recognition, with a description of the features of its work.
myfonts.com is a powerful font recognition tool
The site myfonts.com boasts not only the standard functionality for such resources, but also the presence of a forum where local enthusiasts can help you determine the desired font. To achieve perfect recognition, the resource requires the maximum horizontal placement of the text, the letters should be about 100 pixels high, and not touch one another. The number of letters in the picture must be no more than 50, and the maximum image size is 400,000 pixels (width and height).
To recognize a font, do the following:
Fontspring.com - Find the Fonts You Need Online
The second tool I want to talk about is fontspring.com. Its capabilities have similar functionality and requirements to other resources of this plan.
- To work with the site, go to fontspring.com .
- Here, click on the "Upload the image" button to upload an image with the font to the site, or on the "image URL" to link to the desired page with the font on the web.
- After uploading your picture using the frame, specify the desired text characters for identification, and click on the “Matcherate It!” button. The font recognition procedure will be carried out, and then you can view a list of matches found.
Identifont.com - text font search
The identifont.com service uses a textual method of online font recognition. When you go to the site, you will be asked to answer (optionally) a number of leading questions regarding:
- font appearance (appearance);
- his name or part of the name (name);
- similarities with other fonts (similarity);
- a separate picture or symbol contained in a font (picture);
- the publisher or publisher of the font (designer/publisher).
The search itself is conducted in English, so users who do not speak it will be quite constrained in carrying out searches on the specified site.
Whatfontis.com is a service for identifying letters in an image
Whatfontis.com is a popular resource in Runet, which quite often gets into various reviews. Its popularity is due to both a good mechanism for searching and identifying a font, and the forum available on this site, whose visitors are also able to help in finding the desired prototype.
Working with a resource is no different from other corresponding services:
Rentafont.com - find a font from many alternatives
The rentafont.com service is remarkable in that it allows you to search for the desired font using a variety of existing parameters, including associative search. You can search for a font based on its history, design goals, letterform, and more. In total, the resource contains more than 2.5 thousand fonts, including Cyrillic ones, so if you are patient, you may find the font you need.
Conclusion
This article outlined the main popular online tools that allow you to quickly find and identify the font you need from the picture. Their disadvantage is that they work mainly with fonts using Latin characters, while working with Cyrillic for these resources is somewhat difficult. In the case of Cyrillic fonts, I also recommend contacting the forums of local enthusiasts (of the photoshop-master.ru/forum level) where they will help you find the desired graphic prototype.
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Have you ever had such a situation: you notice a beautiful font, and you want to take it to your collection, but it turns out to be in the picture, and not in the printed text? That is, you can’t see in the source code what kind of style is used for design, and you can’t determine by eye. It would seem that there is no way out. In fact, there are a lot of services on the Internet that can determine the font from the picture online. We will tell you about two.
Let's try to determine the font from this picture on the two most famous sites:
WhatFontIs
This free resource is entirely in English. So the base of Latin fonts there is quite wide. But with the Russians - tension. For those who do not know English, we have prepared a short instruction on how to use the service.
So, to use WhatFontIs to find a font from an image, save the image with the style you like or take a screenshot of the page and cut out the desired fragment. Make sure that the picture is in jpg, png or gif format and does not exceed 1.8 mb. Now follow the instructions.
Advice: instead of uploading an image, you can insert a link to it in the bottom field.
If the service was unable to determine the font, do not despair. Post a picture on the site's forum, where local gurus will definitely help you figure it out.
WhatTheFont
Another English-language service for determining the font from the picture. Trying to find Cyrillic styles here is a waste of time. They simply do not exist in the WhatTheFont database.
Mobile application WhatTheFont
Few people know, but the service WhatTheFont there is an application for determining the font by the picture on gadgets from Apple. This is handy when you catch your eye, for example, an ad in a newspaper, decorated with a beautiful font, or impressed by a sign on the street. Just take a photo of the text and the app will do its job.
In fact, there are more than two ways to help determine a font online. For example, there are services that, instead of recognizing a font from a picture, will ask you a thousand and one questions about what the desired font looks like (http://www.identifont.com/). There are also resources that can even train your eye so that you can recognize many fonts as well as a machine (http://ft.vremenno.net/en/). However WhatTheFont And WhatFontIs- perhaps the most convenient and popular sites for this purpose.
Any designer faces the problem of choosing the right font. Sometimes it is necessary to find a font from a picture, to determine a font from a sample. This is especially true for web developers when choosing fonts for a future site. In this case, special services come to the rescue, which will be described in detail in this article.
So let's do an experiment. To do this, I wrote a test in Photoshop using the selected font and will determine in various services which font I used. Thus, I will determine which service is the best.
You can go through the services with me, and use my picture for testing. You may come to different conclusions.
Here is the inscription:
The first service with which we will determine the font -
- WhatFont Is, address - http://www.whatfontis.com/
Click on the “Browse” button to select a picture with text. Next, you have to choose one item and dauch:
- What The Font, address http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
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Here you also need to upload a picture with text to the service or insert a direct link to the image. The diagram shows what the picture should be for the correct operation of the service. Letters and symbols must be legible, must not merge, the font size must be at least 100 pixels, and the text must be aligned horizontally.
After selecting a picture with text, click “Continue”. It's nice that the service partially identifies the characters itself and only the doubtful ones you have to enter manually.
I added an f, corrected the S to an i, and added a dot to the free space. "Continue" again.
And this service did an excellent job of guessing the font correctly. The only drawback of the site What The Fontthis is a smaller number of fonts compared toWhatFontIs.
Service rating- 5 points. - These were services that determine the font from the picture. However, there are sites where searching for a font by individual distinctive elements works.
Identifontaddress http://www.identifont.com/index.html
If you know exactly what a font looks like, if you have sample letters, then you can do a little test on the appearance of the font and find its name.
Example questions for you to answer:- does the font have serifs,
- name: just enter the name of the font or part of it,
- similar fonts - enter the name of similar fonts, the one you are looking for,
- font designer. If the designer or publisher of the font is known, then you can include it in the search.
Note: the service is in English, but even if you don’t know the language, it’s easy to understand it, since the questions are supported by drawings with symbols.
I was unable to find the desired font using this service. Passed test.
- Font Finder Firefox Add-on- an add-on for Firefox that determines which font is used on the site. Just highlight a word on the site and the add-on will determine the font and CSS style.
Addon link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/font-finder/ - Bowfin Print Works- http://www.bowfinprintworks.com/SerifGuide/serifsearch.php
A service that is based on your idea of what a font looks like, you need to do a detailed analysis of the letters and their elements.
With the help of this service, it was also not possible to determine the font.
I hope that now finding the desired font, finding out its name will not be a problem for you.
We talked about Internet resources that can turn the recognition process, if not into something entertaining, then at least into an ordinary, but promising procedure.
And although the best is the enemy of the good, today we will go even further. After all, who needs entire websites when there are browser extensions?
Fontface Ninja
The craze for Asian, and in particular Japanese, culture that swept the Western world in the previous century could hardly fail to be reflected in the field of IT.
On the example of individual web products, we see this in minimalism bordering on austerity, in a shift in emphasis from the result to the process, and, of course, in sympathy for external paraphernalia. A special attraction for developers, apparently, is the militant and mysterious symbolism of the samurai and their unspoken antagonists - the ninja.
The Fontface Ninja font identification extension for Safari and Chrome fits the idea of a stealthy and efficient mercenary. Working with it is built like this: by clicking on the extension button, hover over the font of interest - a tooltip will contain information about its name, line spacing, size. If you're lucky, you can download the font right there.
The Mask function may turn out to be very interesting: it allows you to hide the graphic content of the page, leaving only text blocks.
Type Sample
Another useful extension, but only for Chrome users. The rest can join the beautiful in the old fashioned way - using the services of bookmarks.
The principle of operation in this case is similar; Perhaps, the implemented opportunity to “play with fonts” in real time deserves special attention. The tooltip with information about the typeface is the last century, when by clicking on the selected text block you can change the font size, look at the pangram (English), enter your own sample text and take other liberties.
Extension for Chrome, and for Firefox, and for Yandex.Browser. This omnivorousness is compensated by an extremely simple functionality: I pressed the button, turned on the font detection mode, pointed to the right one and learned something new.
It is worth noting: WhatFont allows you to determine not only the name, but also the line spacing, style, size, family to which the font belongs, and its current color code when you click on the text.
In addition, you can see how the font looks like in the English alphabet as a whole and download it - if Google itself had a hand in its development.
It is not known how to explain the reverence that developers have for Chrome users, but the fact remains: there are a little more font recognition extensions supported by this browser.
Typ.io is an ideal option for maximalists who do not accept unnecessary gestures. After installing the extension, a button with the letter “T” will appear in the lower corner of the browser, clicking on which displays the names of all fonts identified on the page in a separate column. To find out where a font was used, just click on its name.
