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Which font is that?

1 September 2007

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Which font is that?
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Do 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

Identify fonts
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:

  1. Try to get the maximum possible of the font letters .
  2. Use the most significative characters of the font.
  3. Horizontal image of about 140 x 1500 pixels.
  4. Best format: Tiff, gray scale at 300 dpi
  5. 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”.

What the font

4. Help the automated identifier

what the font

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.

What the font

As you can see, the results are great :)

This post was written by:

Sergio Ordonez - who has written 85 posts on SOSFactory Blog.

My name’s Sergio Ordoñez I´m illustrator, graphic and web designer. A selection of my work is included at SOSFactory. If you want to support this blog, please be an active member: tweet the posts, participate in the discussions and the exercises :)

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5 Comments For This Post

  1. Yeminius Says:

    Buení­sima. Muy buen dato.

    Es muy seguro que lo necesite en algun futuririjillo

    thancs

  2. SaG Says:

    buení­sima, más de una vez algún cliente nos dice de crear un cartel, o un dossier, y no tienen ni idea de que tipografí­a es la que utiliza su compañí­a en el logotipo.. y buscarla en el Suitcase con las 15.000 que hay es un trabajo de chinos, aunque estén separadas en garaldas, gotrescas y tal… Muchas gracias por la aportación!

  3. inedeo Says:

    muy buen dato gracias

  4. regalbum Says:

    excelente dato, no lo sabia, gracias

  5. Clinton Says:

    whoooow i didnt even know that existed yaaay i needed somethin like this!!!

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