When working with text, we often ask ourselves the question “ how to find or determine the font for a given picture?. For example, you found some PSD file, and some beautiful font with a test record. Of course, we need to edit this entry, but only Photoshop writes a notification that such a font is not installed in the shared library and if the text is changed, it will be lost. But we need this particular font, as it fits perfectly into the overall concept of this PSD file. This is where we ask ourselves: where to find the font? By the way, I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the basic principles and capabilities. I am sure you will find a lot of useful and new things for yourself.
In fact, finding or identifying a font from a picture is not a problem now. There are many services on the Internet that will help you with a high probability of doing this.
If you dig a little, then, as a rule, many recommend sites for finding fonts WhatTheFont And Whatfontis. In fact, I liked the last one the most, so I’ll talk about it in detail. But first, the general concept on which almost every such service is built.
Sites offer you to upload a picture, after which the system starts the analysis and looks for a suitable font. As a rule, for greater accuracy of the match, it is proposed to additionally enter letters from the keyboard in the corresponding windows, for example:
It is recommended to select pictures of a large size, at least 100 pixels, and the words in the picture should ideally be drawn in clear black letters on a white background and at least 4 letters long. All this is necessary so that the machine can compare your image with its database of fonts, and as a rule, such a database has tens of thousands of names, and the output was a font as close as possible to the one you were looking for.
After testing several of these sites, and I was looking for the same font from the picture, I came to the conclusion that the most convenient and effective site is Whatfontis. The rest are strongly and often mistaken in their issuance.
One of the main advantages is the likelihood that you will be offered to download the font you are looking for for free.
You open a service.
First decide which method you want to use.
1. By clicking on the Browse button, select the desired image. My example:
2. Specify the url-address to this picture, if it is not on your computer, but hangs somewhere on the Internet.
Then click on Continue.
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No matter how much I searched, but I did not find similar service with Russian interface. But this is not scary, because everything is intuitive here and you can quickly figure out where to click.
The main trouble is that you will never find a font containing letters of the Russian alphabet on such a service, since they do not yet support Cyrillic. But if you know examples that prove the opposite - write in the comments, it will undoubtedly be useful to everyone.
As you can see, the program itself recognized where the letters were and separated them separately. Then she asks to enter in the appropriate fields what letters on the keyboard correspond to these pictures.
Even lower there are three regulators that affect search results.
1. Display only free fonts or free alternative fonts. The checkmark here means that search results will contain only free analogues.
2. Display only commercial fonts or commercial alternative fonts- here on the contrary - only paid analogues.
3. Display all fonts- all possible fonts will be displayed at once.
After selecting the desired checkbox, click on Continue.
The same search results will appear, among which you are looking for the most similar font. For convenience, your desired system always shows in the lower right corner.
As you can see, the option suitable for me is displayed as the very first one under the name "SummerCrushes". By the way, I checked the box so that I was offered only free analogues. So I can easily click on "Click here to download the font" to download the font that I determined from the picture.
Such services are very useful and should definitely be noted by the masters working with graphic editors. We can only hope that there will be those who can support the Cyrillic alphabet.
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Many of us spend the vast majority of our time online. We visit various resources, consume content, create our own materials and enjoy other people's posts. Turning to various pages, we can stumble upon a site, the design of which is made in a Cyrillic font that is pleasing to the eye. The charm can be so great that we may want the same decoration for ourselves. But how do you know what its name is and who the author is? Below we will analyze how you can determine the Russian font from any picture online. And also what network resources will help us with this.
The current conjuncture is such that online font detection services available on the network have an exclusively foreign location. This means that they accentuated in latin, And poorly detect Cyrillic characters.
Western services mainly work with LatinRealizing such a "Latin" accent, a number of world countries (China, Japan, countries of the Middle East, etc.) directed their efforts to create their own web resources that serve the features of their own fonts. In Russia, such resources are this moment are absent, as well as it is not heard of their appearance in the near future.
Therefore, when determining the Russian font in the picture online, we need to focus on those English-language resources that are only partially recognize Cyrillic font. We will also be helped by various online forums, the regulars of which will help us identify the option we need.
At the same time, a number of users use various tricks to recognize the Cyrillic font. In particular, from a Cyrillic word similar to are cut out Latin letters (for example, O, A, C, E and others), after which the image with such letters is uploaded to the "Latin" site. The site recognizes a similar Latin font, which may be used in the future.
The work itself with automatic font identifiers is built according to standard patterns. You go to such a site, upload your font to it. If necessary, help the resource identify individual letters (by typing them in the appropriate cells just below), and click on the button to display the result.
If necessary, help the resource identify individual letters Let's see what resources can help us identify the Russian design of letters online.
The "" service is one of the very few resources that allows you to determine Cyrillic fonts online. The resource promises to search in over 130 thousand different fonts, their quick identification and the possibility of their purchase (in the case of paid analogues).
To work with the site, do the following:
Another resource that allows you to find a Latin font similar to Cyrillic is . This service is a brand developed by the Asian site FontKe.com. Here are web algorithms that allow you to identify a font and download it to your PC. Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and other types of fonts are supported.
To work with a resource, do the following:
In addition to automatic identifiers, there are also resources that allow you to find the desired Cyrillic font online, as they say, “by eye”. The principle of their work is as follows. You go to such a resource, drive any Russian word (phrase) into a special field, and view the options for the inscriptions of this phrase in different Cyrillic fonts. Compare with the original and find the exact match.
These resources include the following:
| Link: | Description: |
|---|---|
| catalog.monotype.com | An English-language resource that also works with Cyrillic fonts. Type your word in the "TYPE YOUR TEXT" field. |
| fontov.net | A popular domestic resource with a large database of fonts. Visual identification works in a similar way to other analogues. Enter the desired phrase in the appropriate field on the site, and click on the right "OK". The service allows you to download your favorite font to your PC. |
| fonts-online.ru | Another domestic service with many free fonts. The field for entering your phrase is on the right. |
| Despite the abundance of Cyrillic fonts, there is no form for entering your own search word here. You will have to search among the fonts on your own, with an abundance of time spent. |
Look for your font at fonts.by In addition to these resources, we can help specialized forums where you can meet experienced graphic design specialists. In particular, we recommend such a forum as a form for feedback, and write a letter to the administration, not forgetting to indicate your return e-mail. There is a good chance you will get an answer.
In our material, we have analyzed how you can determine the Russian font from any picture online. And also what network services will provide us with all possible assistance in this. Despite the limited number of resources working with Cyrillic, you can use both the listed alternatives and online forums. At the latter, the “human factor” will help you, capable of determining the exact name of the font you need by experience.
We talked about Internet resources that can turn the recognition process, if not into something entertaining, then at least into an ordinary, but promising procedure.
And although the best is the enemy of the good, today we will go even further. After all, who needs entire websites when there are browser extensions?
The craze for Asian, and in particular Japanese, culture that swept the Western world in the previous century could hardly fail to be reflected in the field of IT.
On the example of individual web products, we see this in minimalism bordering on austerity, in a shift in emphasis from the result to the process, and, of course, in sympathy for external paraphernalia. A special attraction for developers, apparently, is the militant and mysterious symbolism of the samurai and their unspoken antagonists - the ninja.
The Fontface Ninja font identification extension for Safari and Chrome fits the idea of a stealthy and efficient mercenary. Working with it is built like this: by clicking on the extension button, hover over the font of interest - a tooltip will contain information about its name, line spacing, size. If you're lucky, you can download the font right there.
The Mask function may turn out to be very interesting: it allows you to hide the graphic content of the page, leaving only text blocks.
Another useful extension, but only for Chrome users. The rest can join the beautiful in the old fashioned way - using the services of bookmarks.
Working principle in this case similar; Perhaps, the implemented opportunity to “play with fonts” in real time deserves special attention. A tooltip with information about the typeface is the last century, when by clicking on the selected text block you can change the font size, look at the pangram (English), enter own example text and allow yourself other liberties.
Extension for Chrome, and for Firefox, and for Yandex.Browser. This omnivorousness is compensated by an extremely simple functionality: I pressed the button, turned on the font detection mode, pointed to the right one and learned something new.
It is worth noting: WhatFont allows you to determine not only the name, but also the line spacing, style, size, family to which the font belongs, and its current color code when you click on the text.
In addition, you can see how the font looks like in the English alphabet as a whole and download it - if Google itself had a hand in its development.
It is not known how to explain the reverence that developers have for Chrome users, but the fact remains: there are a little more font recognition extensions supported by this browser.
Typ.io- perfect option for maximalists who do not accept unnecessary gestures. After installing the extension, a button with the letter “T” will appear in the lower corner of the browser, clicking on which displays the names of all fonts identified on the page in a separate column. To find out where a font was used, just click on its name.
Quite often, on various question and answer services, people ask the same question: “ How to determine the font in the picture».
For those who are not related to graphics or web design, it is difficult to understand why this is necessary)) Those who are “in the know” know well how difficult it is to determine the type of font in any picture or logo and choose it so that the text looked almost like the original.
WhatTheFont is a free online service that will help you identify a font from an image. In order for the result of the determination to be as accurate as possible, it is desirable to comply with the following conditions:
To determine the font from the picture, you need to upload this same picture to the service or specify its address on the Internet. Both of these actions are performed on home page WhatTheFont.
As an example, let's define the font in the logo of my site MuzRelax.ru. I know what font is used there, but let's see if the WhatTheFont service can correctly identify it.
I took a screenshot of the logo and uploaded the image like this:
As you can see, the background of the font is not even contrasting, although this is also a desirable condition (black on white or white on black).
On the next page, the service will automatically break the entire inscription in the picture into individual letters and try to identify them. Letters that are not defined or identified incorrectly, you can enter yourself in small boxes. In my example, everything was determined correctly in automatic mode.
At the final stage, the service will issue a list of fonts that look similar to the font that is in the picture. In my case, 4 options were offered, the very first of which (Georgia) is the type of font that I used in the logo of the MuzRelax.ru website. Excellent result!
Unfortunately, WhatTheFont has several drawbacks:
WhatTheFont is the leading online service of its kind, has a good community to ask for help with defining a font, is completely free and works very fast. I definitely recommend!
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At work, I needed to find out the style of writing letters, since I work as an engraver, I found a tool to search for a font in a picture. It's good that now there are many ways, I will analyze three popular ways:
I will analyze the most best service to search for a font in the whatfontis picture, and in the last paragraph I will provide six more. We follow the link and see the download menu. 
To take a screenshot from the screen , send an example of the font by url , you may need .
Online service will split the file letter by letter, it is possible that it may not decompose correctly, then you can combine the elements by simply dragging, holding left button mouse and drag.
In my case, it is laid out normally, but the service could not recognize the characters themselves, as we see empty windows. It can be left blank, but it is better to fill it in to facilitate the recognition process.
Remember, we marked the editor item, to enter it, scroll to the bottom and find the launch line online editor. Required for correct operation latest version flash player.
I will not consider it, we throw the edited file back for analysis and do the check. Having filled in all the fields with letters, press the big red continue button, and look at the result. It worked once and recognized the Cyrillic spelling.
I found 15 results, the screenshot shows the first two lines, the fonts are very similar to my original, with an example of writing and a name. That's all, then I'll analyze the extension for the browser.
Tip, to search for Cyrillic texts, upload images with letters that match Russian, such as the letters A, H, P, etc.
What font extension: Cyrillic is not a problem
The extension scanner looks at the prescribed fonts in the site code, even Cyrillic can be processed. Unfortunately, it cannot recognize graphic elements, but everything else is very fast. Follow the link and install the browser extension.
Suitable for almost all types google browsers chrome, on Yandex and firefox it works fine, I checked it.
To activate, click the icon in active and wait for the download. Once the tool is ready to use it will change color. Now, to determine the font, we hover over the required element on the page.
- The icon has become active. To enable the process, click, do the same to disable.
- Font element.
- Deciphering style, family and spelling.
Cool truth, I couldn’t help but show it, although the topic of the article is in the picture, but give Additional information necessary.
Application for mobile devices
Unfortunately, I didn’t find it for android, the WhatTheFont application helped out, so enter the name in itunes. The application allows you to download images for free from the device itself and using a camcorder. More convenient than with services, you can take a picture of your favorite piece of text and recognize the font from the picture. To work, you need an Internet connection and, accordingly, the WhatTheFont application.
I tried it with a friend, it works and copes better than any online tool. We turn to a selection of alternatives.
Alternative online services
In addition to the first point, I will give 6 more sites, most in English, one in Russian. Online methods are built in descending order of efficiency.
Myfonts analogue of whatfontis
It is located at , similar to whatfontis, it can also search by image, but the results are not always accurate. Each time it produces different results, but from the fifth time it can hit the target. The principles are aimed at searching for some features, curls, serifs, thickness and others.
You can find it here, the only Russian portal Fontmassive, it works for free. There are no systems for recognizing the Russian language (ridiculous), there is only the voice of the people, the people give the answer. You need to register and submit an application to be prompted. Convenient and practical, so that no one can answer the question better than a person.
Identifont.com finds fonts from surveys
To be on the page to determine the desired family and style, the tool asks you about the features of the font, what letters, how they are arranged, and so on. If in doubt, there is a “not sure” button, the method is longer, but it can bring you as close as possible to a positive effect. You can also analyze in Cyrillic, the spelling is the same.
The ability to search on a typophile is again determined by a person, but now to start a search, you are required to provide a picture, make a separate topic, and wait for an answer from experts. It differs from Fontmassive in the presence of advanced specialists, but again in English, Google translator to help.
bowfinprintworks feature: it immediately gives questions to fill in the form of checkboxes and examples. There are ten fields to fill in, determines the font by writing only some letters. It produces an adequate search, not a bad effect, but it is necessary to analyze, not everyone will peer into letters and symbols.
It's a pity that the program for finding styles does not exist. It would be convenient to have stationary software on a computer.
I will finish the review and say: searching for a font in a picture is a painstaking work, automated methods do not always give a positive result, you will have to work with your hands. And at the end of the video.
