More than once I’ve had a client send me a scan of a logo, or hand me a piece of stationery or whatever, and say they want that bit there at the top of their website, and they also want other things to use the same font. My next question is invariably “What’s the name of that font?” and of course they never have the answer, and the person who designed the logo in question is either dead or moved to Guadalajara with no forwarding address.

So, what do you do? Do you haunt the font sites, scrolling through thousands and thousands of fonts (and downloading another 500 you don’t need while you’re at it . . . ) ??? Do you post on all sorts of messageboards hoping and praying someone (ANYONE!) can identify the dang font? Or is there another way?

One of the things I love the most about the web is that if you’ve had a problem, then other people have most likely had that problem too, and MOST times you can find a nifty online tool that will help you solve that problem. In this case the tool is WhatTheFont, a handy dandy font name demystifier. Upload the image, preferably with the font in question approximately 100 pixels high and with more, rather than less, characters in the image, and WhatTheFont will spit back a name at you. Once the font is identified you can then find the font file on the web. Presto!

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