What font is this? 3 reliable tools that identify the font type

If you are not currently among experienced graphic designers or typographers, determining a font is most likely Greek to you. How to find out what typeface it is? What should you do if, while browsing images on the web, a particular typeface catches your attention? Is it even possible to navigate the countless number of fonts and possibly even identify the font used?

Have no worries. This issue is reliably addressed by multiple software tools. Thanks to them, you can identify any font on the web or in an image. Today, from the selection of several applications, we chose 3 that we believe are the most useful. We hope they will not disappoint you when identifying fonts and will bring you a satisfying result.

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont is currently one of the oldest web tools and has been helping users identify font types since 1999. The fact that it has been around for almost two decades, of course, does not yet mean that it should belong on the “ash heap of history.” Quite the opposite.WhatTheFont has continuously improved and evolved over the years, so it certainly does not lag behind newer alternative font identification tools in any way. And what do you need to do to identify the font?

Basically, it won't be anything complicated. Ideally, choose a sufficiently high-quality (clear) image with text, and crop it as well as possible before uploading. Then you upload the image with the part of the text that caught your attention to the server and simply wait for the results. The advantage of this tool is that, in addition to finding an exact match, or more precisely the typeface, it can also offer you similar alternative fonts.An excellent thing that can inspire you in many ways when creating for the web or an infographic. The desktop and mobile application is completely free.

WhatFontis

The web tool WhatFontis, similarly to the application mentioned above, allows you to identify a font type from any image.

Unlike WhatTheFont, however, this tool offers features that you would look for in vain in the aforementioned tool. To identify text in an image, the user only needs to enter the path to the image on disk or the address of its web location. Simply put, all you need is the URL, so there is no need to download the image and upload it to the server again. And what follows after entering the URL address?

WhatFontis displays all possible font types that most closely match the text used in the image, and thanks to the preview of the original image, you can compare the individual fonts with each other. One of the benefits of the WhatFontis web tool is the ability to search and filter results based on whether they are commercial, i.e. paid versions of a typeface, or, conversely, fonts that are available for free. Users looking for alternatives to commercial fonts can turn to this free tool.

Fount

A fairly simple and reliable application, Fount, can also identify fonts for you while browsing websites, and you can use it in multiple browsers.

We can mention Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, and of course Internet Explorer version 8 and above. And how does this application work?

Fount is launched from bookmarks in the browser, ideally from the bookmarks bar. In your browser, you then simply need to go to the website where you want to identify an interesting typeface and click the link hidden in the bookmark. The cursor on the monitor screen will instantly change to a different type of pointer, which, when you click on the text, will display a table with information about its parameters and, of course, the name of the corresponding font.The icing on the cake in this case is the inclusion of a link to the Google Fonts service.