What the Font?!

I’m actually smack right in the middle of a web design project at the moment, but I just found a website I wanted to let others know about asap.

Have you ever wondered what a certain font was…..maybe you wanted to use the same font on something you were designing…..but you didn’t really want to spend 30 minutes or more in Paintbrush or Photoshop trying to unlock the mystery?

I’ve been there so many times I can’t even tell you! Today was one of those days. I was googling a few different fonts that I didn’t have downloaded onto my computer – trying to determine which was used on a particular business card. I found a really slick website that helped me out in less than 3 minutes.

What The Font is a free resource on My Fonts.com. It’s an online tool that honest to goodness will solve the mystery for you. I scanned in the card, saved it as a .jpg, uploaded it to their site (you could use an image’s url instead), then watched as they solved the mystery for me!

There’s a forum on the site, as well. Apparently if you can’t get a result using the above technique, they have experts that’ll tell you what font you’re looking at.

Needless to say, I bookmarked this baby and will put it to very good use.

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