How to Identify Font in Any Image

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There are several times when you will find a random image somewhere that has some text on it, but not be sure which font was used on the photo. Identifying fonts on an image is an incredibly useful trick that everyone should know. This has a lot of uses such as allowing you to find and download a font that you absolutely love, which was used in a picture. Alternatively, you may have…

After I realized that I wanted to tweak the type of just about everything before I got into the nuances of rearranging everything, I figured out that I didn’t want to use any of the font choices that were standard for the Internet (i.e. Georgia, Times New Roman, Heveltica, etc. ). 

It’s not that I don’t like them - Garamond, Montserrat, Verdana, and Gotham are some of my favorite fonts. It’s just that I felt that there are too many options out there to use the same old fonts. Especially if another choice can look just as sleek, professional, and legible as we all used to think that Times New Roman was (because , let’s face it - TNR’s time is coming to an end).

I tried the Google Fonts route which is, might I say, quite easy - until some of the fonts weren’t rendering on the site and I got too frustrated trying to figure out what I wasn’t doing right. 

I tried to use TypeKit which, in theory, is great - but since I didn’t like any of the fonts that they offered, I decided to pass on that, too. 

I finally came across a post by Tim Brown, a Type Manager at Typekit, on nicewebtype.com. Such a life saver!

I was able to find the fonts that I wanted on dafont.com (one of my favorite places on the internet), convert the fonts to multiple versions through Font Squirrel’s webfont generator, slide them into a font folder within my theme, and code them into my style.css file through the @ font-face plug.