I know you have all been there, you run across a cool image using a sweet font but not sure what font family it is.  Or you have a new client who gives you a logo in a jpg format and you cannot identify the font used for it.

Well, now there is a tool to easily identify any font without having to scroll through hundreds of web pages trying to visually find a match.

MyFonts.com  has created an online tool, WhatTheFont, that allows users to freely upload an image or insert a url to an image, then their robust app will scan the image and attempt to find its match in their database.  Let me walk you through the steps…

1) Upload a text image from your hard drive or input the url to an image you found online.

2) WhatTheFont will scan the image and attempt to break it down into all of its different characters. 

I have chosen to use the WhatTheFont logo form their page.

As you can see, the engine has split up all characters and has attempted to identify which characters they are.  Users have the option to fill in the blank boxes (characters that the system could not identify) or overwrite what the character the system thought it was.

Sometimes the app can not properly scan the character and therefore cannot determine what character it is suppose to represent.  You can leave these blank as long as you have enough identified ones.

3) Once you have tagged the characters, the system then attempts to search its database to find font family matches for the image you provided.

As you can see, it easily found its own logo font and listed it as the first search result.

This site’s app has come in handy quite a few times and I hope you can use it with as much success as I have.  

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TJ Swing is an active technical systems analyst for Bridge Worldwide and a web developer/co-founder of Six Digit Media.  He has actively been involved in web development and design since 1998 and brings a wealth of collective experiences and fresh technical strategies to individuals and companies involved in online business.