Have you ever found yourself admiring a font in an image or a logo while browsing the web and wanted to implement it in one of your projects? While there are a large number of resources that allow you to identify fonts on the web pretty quickly, deciphering a font in a picture or an image presents a bit of a problem. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to identify fonts in images, so that you can move on to the task of downloading and implementing them without wasting too much time.
How to Identify Fonts in Images
1. Download and save the image containing the font you want on to your desktop.
2. Navigate to www.whatfontis.com.
3. Click Browse, navigate to the location that contains the image and click Open to upload the image.
4. Select the options for the image you are uploading. For instance, you need to select the correct background option, or choose to display only free fonts, only commercial fonts, or all fonts.
5. Then click Continue.
6. In the next screen, identify the character from the image and highlight it in the adjacent box.
7. Once you have identified all the images, click Continue at the bottom of the screen.
You will get a list of the fonts that closely resemble the font in the image. You also have options to buy or download the fonts.
That’s it. You’ve got your fonts narrowed down pretty quickly and you don’t have to waste any more time searching the internet.
You can also make use of the extensions that are available for Chrome and Firefox browsers to make your task even more easy.
Download WhatFontIs Addon for Firefox
Download WhatFontIs Addon for Chrome
Have you used another tool to identify fonts in images? If so, please share them in the comments section, so others may benefit as well.
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Hi Adeline, This is very helpful. I’m a fan of fonts and I am often curious which font is used on a website. If you’re trying to design a website, it’s very handy to be able to search for fonts.
I tried this site for a font, but it did just give me a list of fonts to buy without really identifying the font that was used. I’m wondering if perhaps the Chrome extension works better. What has been your experience with the extension?
Hi Carolyn,
It’s nice to have you back here! My apologies for not visiting your site.I’ve been having a really hard time with some family matters and had to give up on a lot of my usual tasks like commenting! Things are slowly coming back to normal, so hopefully, I’ll be checking in soon.
I find the WhatFontIs extension works well with images, but for text identification, i prefer to use WhatFont, which I wrote about in an earlier post. I use the Whatfont bookmarklet that lets me identify fonts in text pretty quickly, but that tool doesn’t do a good job when it comes to identifying fonts in images. If you wish to give WhatFont a try, here’s the link to the bookmarklet. http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html
Let me know how it works for you.
Cheers,
Adeline