WhatTheFont Takes the Guesswork Out of Font Replication [Information That Could Have Been Brought to My Attention Yesterday]

Among the useless pieces of paper hanging on my wall are a cinematic poster for the greatest movie of all time, something to keep me motivated, and a degree in graphic design. The latter taught me less than the other two put together, but during my tenure as a CGD student, I was frequently asked to emulate other companies ads and logos to placate different "instructors" who couldn't think of any other assignments to keep us busy while they browsed the internet. Most of the time, this meant a good portion of my time was spent identifying which font they were even using. One of our favorite sites, Download Squad just posted about a web based font indentification tool which could have saved me lots of time and money spent on ulcer medication.

WhatTheFont allows you to upload or link to an image with the font you want to identify and does the legwork for you. To try and give it a bit more of a challenge, I used an image that had been wordarted to see if it would still be able to ascertain the source. I was not disappointed.

Once you upload the image, you're brought to a character selection screen used to clarify that the letters it thinks it sees are the letters it's supposed to see. This seems to work fairly well, I had to manually enter or change a few of them before clicking the search button.

Assuming everything goes to plan the next screen shows a list of font possibilities (hopefully) sorted by accuracy. My font was clearly the first choice and, though the other possibilities weren't necessary, I definitely appreciate knowing that they're going to provide several options if the first one doesn't cut it.






It works so I'm happy. Now if i could just get a site to pay back the 30 thousand in school loans the degree cost me, I could move on. Oh well , "Hang in There Baby."

Source - Download Squad