Font Recognize 10 Best Tricks

Trick № 1: WhatTheFont

A well-known and popular service for the detection of commercial fonts from MyFonts is WhatTheFont. Upload an image obtained with the type specimen is high and the system from the vast catalog of MyFonts currently about 900 magazine party the appropriate headings.
The service works best when the type specimen contrast and undistorted, and with letters touch each other or with background images. Often it is therefore worthwhile to clean up before the image in an image editing program to brief accordingly.

Trick № 2: What Font is

A very similar service as WhatTheFont is What Font is. Unlike the former, the focus here is on free fonts. If you were not successful with WhatTheFont, therefore, often worth a second attempt at What Font is.

Trick № 3: The PDF-trick

You would like to know what typeface used a particular company? A very safe method, used on certain writings undoubtedly is, doing a lookup in PDF files. The writings here are embedded in the control and display programs such as Adobe Reader allow an overview of the fonts used in a PDF.
If you believe there are still no PDF, it is advisable to browse the website of the manufacturer to PDFs. When corporations are almost always stored as the annual reports as PDFs.

For a more specific search on Google for example, type the following code:

site: German-bank.de pdf

More specifically, the search if you allow only the results for the PDF file type:

site: German-bank.de filetype: pdf

Then, upload the PDF to your computer and open it in Adobe Reader. Open the Document Properties of Cmd + D or CTRL + D and you look "under the tab" fonts which fonts were used in this pdf. Thus, where appropriate, the name of house types to determine unerringly, which were derived from existing fonts.

Trick № 4: Identifont

Quite often we know the name of a font, but you know other writings that look very similar. This is where the Identifont Website. Simply enter the name of the famous writer, and then browse in the sidebar to the proposals similar writings. This selection is maintained by the operators of the site manually and is therefore accurate.

Trick № 5: Questionnaire

Identifont offer yet another way to determine writings. Through a series of questions like "Does the font serifs?" Or "Dominated the J" above the baseline is the font search narrowed down further until only a small number of tracts qualify. http://www.identifont.com/identify.html

Trick № 6: Find My Font

If you would like to search documents using a pattern graph on only his own computer, you can use programs like this Find My Font. They operate on the same principle as WhatTheFont and What Font is, but it only browse the fonts on your hard disk. If you want just want to quickly find a similar font to a font sample, without having to spend money in this way can be found easily compare different font from the font's own inventory.

Trick № 7: Look in the wiki

In the wiki of Typografie.info there is one of the largest lists of corporate house magazines from all over the world: http://www.typografie.info/2/wiki.php?title=Hausschriften-Liste
The list can be used by all members Typografie.info amended or modified. We appreciate your help to keep this list current and accurate!

Trick № 8: "Probably isses rotis!"

Even though we now can theoretically draw on over 100,000 fonts - most of the character recognition questions in our forums goes back to just a handful of classic fonts. These include, for example, Rotis, Futura, Helvetica, and meta-and as a display typeface Garamond, and the different versions in books. It is always worthwhile to know these classics. A good overview is to provide such FontShop 100 Best Fonts: http://www.100besteschriften.de/

Trick № 9: Validity Check

Often we are in the forum type specimen submitted for identification, where it is not to set fonts, but designed their own words (eg logo). In case you are making the arduous search for the right font, you should be sure that the document is now available at all of a typeface. These are a few tips:

• Compare the same letter: Check if same letters really look the same every time. Check out each time different, you have to do it either with a rare, sophisticated OpenType font with alternate characters, or with a written script, based on any set of letters.
• Inspect connections: script fonts as a set of fonts usually have very strict, uniform connections so that any letters fit together. Often, even, the last letter in a word as a compound that is irrelevant. These are typical characteristics of a typeface. Do the links, in fact "as written" with sweeping in and smears at the end of words, then it is probably written too.
• Dancing baseline: typefaces are usually strictly on a baseline. If the type specimen, the baseline is unstable or even obliquely, it was certainly also a calligrapher at work.
• Roundings, extensions, deletions: Logo designs are now often made on the basis of type faces, and these are strongly modified. Corners are rounded, cut out parts Buchtaben, extended parts of letters and more letters, etc. connected
• Any modifications of this type indicate that it is a logo, does not constitute a directly used typeface.

Trick № 10: Ask The Professionals

If all else fails, ask the experts in recognition of the font.