Which font is that?
by Sergio Ordonez at 6:52 am on Resources, LogotypesDo you remember the last time a client asked you to vectorize a logo, you went crazy asking which was the font you used in that logo?. Well, it wont happen again with
My favorite utility to identify fonts
1. Get a high quality image.
If you don’t know a font you just need to get an image of the logo, the bigger the logo is and higher the quality, you’ll get better results.
To explain how it works we will use our SOSFactory logo.
The font used is Nasalization, let’s see if this web application works correctly.
2. Prepare the image
As you can see, our logo had text effects that makes the font identification harder.
So we’ve cleaned the logo all we could. Some advices to get the best results:
- Try to get the maximum possible of the font letters .
- Use the most significative characters of the font.
- Horizontal image of about 140 x 1500 pixels.
- Best format: Tiff, gray scale at 300 dpi
- Use images with a good contrast, for example black over white.
3. Let’s go to what the font?’s website
Let’s visit what the font? as you can see, just hit the button “Search” (Examinar), the search the image in your hard drive and click “Upload”.
4. Help the automated identifier
The automatic application works pretty good, although it may confuse with the special characters.
It’s as simple as changing the boxes with wrong characters.
Remember the letters are case sensitive. When we finish, we just need to hit the “Search” button
5. Check out the results.
As you can see, the results are great 