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Identify Fonts in Bitmap Images

Sometimes you need to recreate a vector image from a bitmap or raster design but you don't know what font was originally used. Maybe you're trying to recreate your logo as a vector, or maybe you're just trying to identify a font used in another design piece so that you can use it again on a new design. This lens has links to the tools you need to identify that mystery font.

Online Font Recognition - What the Font?

Very Cool - Upload Your Image and Detect Your Font

WhatTheFontWhatTheFont is a really cool tool that allows you to upload a bitmap or raster image, and it will try to identify a font for you.

Identify a Font Free

Answer Questions About Your Font and this Q&A Font Identifier Spits Out Likely Choices

IdentifontIdentifont is a question and answer program that will help you identify a font by answering questions about what your font looks like. The questions range from, does the uppercase J extend below the baseline, and does the dollar sign have two lines going down or one. The problem is, if you only have a few words in your logo or design it may still be hard to determine which font you are using especially if your raster art only has a few characters. It's certainly worth a try though, especially since it's free!

Let the Experts Help You Match Your Font

Forums Are A Great Palce to Ask for Help from Real People

Typophile is the largest community of font experts online today. Simply post a raster image of the font you're looking for as a new thread in their forum and see what the experts come back with. Most other free font sites also have forums where you can do this, but the communities won't be as big or as useful as Typophile. I recommend trying this forum first.

Best Free Font Identification Forums

Here is a list of other Font Identification forums out there. Please vote up or down so others will know which ones are the best to frequent. Also feel free to submit your own favorite font identification forums. I'll be happy to add them to the list.

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Flickr: Typeface Identification

Flikr has a group specifically for uploading image more...0 points

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forum | dafont.com

Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by al more...0 points

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How did you detect your font from a gif or jpg image?

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  • san Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:32 am | delete
    good
  • mperry Nov 29, 2011 @ 6:25 am | delete
    Find my Font rocks!!! It does an amazing job identifying fonts you have on your computer. Every graphics designer should try it.
  • Fivos Sep 21, 2011 @ 4:37 pm | delete
    Find my Font is a new utility which detects a font from an image.
    It runs on either Mac or PC and it find a match by scanning all the fonts you have in your computer at a speed of 5.000.000 fonts per minute! You can download a free-trial edition here: http://www.findmyfont.com
  • Pastiche Sep 10, 2011 @ 9:49 am | delete
    I like WDF but I may try the other free resources you've compiled. Love fonts ...
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