Wednesday, May 3, 2017

How to manually identify a font when the automatic services fail?


A common problem: Designer has spotted a delicious font being used on/offline, but there are no references what is the name of the font. The designer either gets unsatisfactory results from automatic identification services or is unable to provide a digital image of the font.



Question is: How our sad designer should describe the font being used in order to get satisfactory results from vast font databases such as myfonts.com or fonts.com?



  • Is there a good checklist that could be followed?

  • Where in the font I should look at?

  • What defines and categorises the font?

  • How the graphic design professionals/enthusiasts provide answers to font identification questions at here or at other crowdsourcing sites (e.g. Typophile) — is it something else than just memorising a few hundred typefaces?


Multiple sub-questions, but all revolve around the same issue: how to manually identify an unknown font?




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