Fonts, in computer science but also in traditional typography, are graphic writing styles. For example, when writing with Word on the computer, one of the fonts made available by the program is used, including the famous and traditional Verdana, Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Tahoma, Lucida Sans and so on. Probably, not everyone knows that, if you want to add a particular and different font to the computer than the default ones, you have to buy the font that you can hardly download for free. Both at company level and for home and private use, it can be really useful to find what the font is used in a logo or on a billboard, extracting it from an image or a photo . Once you have identified the right character, you can then eventually buy it and use it for your own purposes.
To give an example, in the past we had seen a free font type, EcoFont, which allows you to save on the use of printer ink.
On Windows, to install a Font, just double click on the .ttf file and it should automatically appear in the drop-down menu of a program like Word.
Fonts can then be created starting from those already made present in the company images or logos. Typically, on the websites of famous companies or even on blogs, characters that are not found on the computer are used therefore, replicating them becomes impossible.
1) To find out which font has been used, you can go to the WhatTheFont website, upload an image and get the name of the font used. So you could write with the character of the Google logo or other famous brands or, even more beautiful, take a picture of an advertising sign and rewrite it on the computer in the same way, with the same graphics. For example, I uploaded the logo of this blog, to find out what the font of Navigaweb.net is.
I then pressed the " Choose " button, loaded the image, pressed on Continue, chose the clearest hypothesis that was produced by the OCR processing of the web application and obtained, as a probable result, that the font used is the Modern . Unfortunately then if you want to download that particular font to write on the computer, that font must be purchased at a cost of about 20 Dollars. Once the name is known, however, the possibility of finding it on promotion or free on other specialized sites remains alive.
2) Font Matcherator is the first site to use if What The Font doesn't work as expected. Just drag the image into the box on the Font Matcherator website, surround the text with the box marked and wait for the font to be recognized automatically. The final result may not be accurate, but you should still see characters similar to the one scanned.
3) In the event that the search for is not satisfactory and the corresponding font is not found, you can try other font identification sites such as WhatFontIs which works in much the same way.
4) Fontspring is another tool for detecting fonts from an image, very similar to WhatTheFont. The site also allows you to modify the image to be analyzed in order to better separate the letters or make them more recognizable. The app supports detection of OpenType features, a file format used for computer fonts. The site allows you to upload images from your computer or use the URL of an online image.
5) A service to find the name of the font used on a website is Fontface Ninja which is to be used as an extension for Chrome.
6) Other among the best sites to search for particular, personalized or rare fonts are Fonts.com and IdentyFont where you answer some questions that allow you to identify the font with the desired graphic font.
If you don't want to buy any font, you can create the font for your own writing or write on your computer with your own calligraphy.
