How to Find Font from Image?

People who use the internet, see a lot of pictures with written text on them. And they may be curious about which font is being used in the picture. You may use the font as a small Instagram marketing trick or just use it in your personal Christmas card.

To find font from an image you need to use special tools. There are many tools that can translate an image into a font. In this article, we will review 5 of the best tools.

Every day new tools are designed and released to find font by image upload, URL and etc. But some of these tools have significant features that the rest of them do not have. Bellow, we will introduce the top 5 tools people use to find font by image.

How to Find Font from Image Using WhatFontIs?

WhatFontIs is the font detection from image tool that you can use online. It has access to more fonts compared to its major rivals (for example Creative Market fonts, that most tools don’t support).

It also has more free resources. Meaning you are more likely to find your font or something similar to that without paying a fee.

To find font from an image, take the steps below:

1. Upload the Image / Font Finder Upload Image

Simply drag your image to the blue box on the right.

2. Choose the best contrast for the site to work with

Here the site asks you to choose the image with a lighter background and darker text. Easy enough to find.

3. Crop the text out of the image

Here you need to choose the text and crop it out of the image. notice how we even cropped the second line out, making the site’s task easier.

4. Modify the image and separate the letters

Simply change the settings so that the text is more separated from the background. (Image below)

Then use your cursor to separate the letters within the image.

5. Match the images with the letters

Finally, help the site to identify the letters. Write what letter each image shows, in the box underneath it. If it’s not a letter, keep the box empty.

6. See the results

Here we can only show the first two. But WhatFontIs shows 60 suggestions, free and premium. As you can see the guess is quite accurate.

You can also save the list, but it requires registration.

More Tools to Find Font by JPG

Here are a few other websites that serve a similar function and can be used for font detection from image.

1. Fontspring Matcherator

Fontspring Matcherator is one of the best tools to find font from a picture. It’s very easy to use. You just need to upload your image and click on “matcherate it!”. This tool will tell you the name of the font used in the picture you have uploaded.

If you want to download your desired font using this tool, you will need to pay a fee. For example, if you wish to download font 65 (Minion Pro Italic, Medium, Bold and etc.) you will have to pay $570, which is a hefty number. If you only want the name of a font used in a picture then fontspring matcherator is the best option for you.

2. Font Squirrel

Font Squirrel is more like a search engine of fonts. This tool works exactly like What The Font. However, it allows you to download the font it has identified for you.

Some downloadable fonts are completely free, however, some fonts require you to buy them before downloading them.

One of Font Squirrel features is Webfont Generator, which allows you to generate unique fonts for your website. To find fonts from a picture using Font Squirrel, you just need to type in the word(s) in the picture and then scan it.

3. IdentiFont

IdentiFont like any other font search engine provides you with several tools. Including the very useful Identifont by image.

But what if you don’t have access to the image? or lost it? With 5 amazing features, IdentiFont can solve your problem.

• Identifont by appearance: this tool will ask you 13 questions about your targeted font and then displays a list of similar fonts to you. There are more than 11000 different types of font in this tool. One of the questions you will be asked is, Do the characters have serifs? How does the dot (.) in the question mark look?
• Identifont by name: if you know a part of the font’s name and you aren’t completely sure. You can type in the name and IdentiFont will display similar fonts to you.
• Identifont by similarity: if the unknown font you are looking for is similar to another font, simply enter its name and you will see a list of similar fonts.
• Identifont by picture: this tool allows you to search for different fonts. For example, by searching a word, you can find all the fonts that include a picture of the word.
• Identifont by designer/publisher: designing a font is an art-form and people who design them are considerable artists. By entering the name of the designer or publisher you can see all of their work on the display.

4. WhatTheFont

One of the most popular used tools to identify fonts is WhatTheFont, which is offered free for its users. There are 3 main rules for using this program.

• First, you need to make sure the font in the picture is not edited.
• Second, the height of words should be 100 pixels.
• Third, the text in the picture should be horizontal.

Once you upload the image to this program, results will be displayed to you like a list and you can easily identify the font.

If your image doesn’t follow these 3 rules, you will have to edit it in Photoshop before uploading it to WhatTheFont. If for any reason it fails to identify the font, you can contact its support and ask them to add the new font.

This app can be installed on Android and iOS and can be used both online and offline. 

Conclusion

In this article, we discussed how to find font by image and introduced the top 5 font finder by uploading image. There are many reasons why you may need to find the font of an image. You may want to use it on your website, or you just think it looks great.