Suppose you have found a nice font on a certain website that you would like to use for your PowerPoint presentation or Word document, for example. How do you find out which font it is exactly? Fortunately, there are ways that searching and finding the names of the fonts is a breeze. This way you can search for beautiful fonts online.
Fortunately, we live in a time when more and more matters are centrally documented and that brings certain advantages. So in this case it is sometimes possible to search huge databases of fonts. That would be quite a job if you had to do that manually, so fortunately there are tools that help you with that. It is a fantastic site What The Font.
What The Font
What you can do on this site is upload an image with the font you’re looking for. You then have to indicate which letter exactly corresponds to which part of the image, after which the site will look for the correct font for you. That doesn’t always work, but even if it doesn’t, you still end up with a font that looks a lot like it.
Give directions yourself
If you don’t have an image available, but you do know exactly what the font you are looking for looks like Identifont.com a fantastic website. On this website you can firstly search by various criteria, such as of course the name, but also the name of the font it resembles, the symbol that appears in it and the name of the designer / distributor.
More interesting, however, is that you can also go through a questionnaire to get one step closer to your font on the basis of Yes / No answers. Granted, this is a little less accurate than WhatTheFont’s service, but it’s a great way to find at least the font you get excited about, and hopefully exactly the font you’re looking for.
If you come across a nice font on a website while browsing, you can quickly and easily recognize it by the WhatFont extension for your Google Chrome browser. The extension shows an icon in Chrome. Clicking this changes your mouse pointer into a question mark. Move this over the fonts of a website and you will immediately see which font it is. Useful!
