This has been around for ages.
Correct, but in all honesty, I totally forgot about it.
WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
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Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the mobile version is "way better and more accurate" when, I believe, most people wanting to know the name of a font are people working on a computer?
Absolutely - I've used 'WTF' quite a lot over the years, never once from a mobile, nor can I imagine ever doing so. I'm certainly not going to start taking photos of my monitor here, anyway! Odd.
What's wrong with taking photo of your monitor?
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#43Hey, I'm part of the team that made this, and you have the wrong link. This is our new mobile app: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/mobile/ It's powered by deep learning, and it's way better and more accurate than the current desktop version that's linked here.
I just tried a couple of photos of websites from my monitor and it's really nowhere near close to identifying. One of them was roboto from the play store which I'd have hoped would be an easy one. Does it struggle with photos of screens in particular?
No, it does fine with screens. The problem you're encountering is that we don't have any Google Fonts in the MyFonts library currently. The app can only return fonts that we have on MyFonts.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#44I'm a fan of the https://www.typesample.com/ bookmarklet.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the mobile version is "way better and more accurate" when, I believe, most people wanting to know the name of a font are people working on a computer?
Absolutely - I've used 'WTF' quite a lot over the years, never once from a mobile, nor can I imagine ever doing so. I'm certainly not going to start taking photos of my monitor here, anyway! Odd.
Normally I'm not the fan of unneeded mobile app dependence of things (e.g. home lighting). But in this case, taking photo of your computer monitor and getting font name as result seems more convenient than taking screenshot, cropping, uploading, etc...
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely - I've used 'WTF' quite a lot over the years, never once from a mobile, nor can I imagine ever doing so. I'm certainly not going to start taking photos of my monitor here, anyway! Odd.
Normally I'm not the fan of unneeded mobile app dependence of things (e.g. home lighting). But in this case, taking photo of your computer monitor and getting font name as result seems more convenient than taking screenshot, cropping, uploading, etc...
If you're on a Mac, try Command + Shift + 4 to take a screenshot with a crop tool that's saved on your ~/Desktop folder.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why the mobile version is "way better and more accurate" when, I believe, most people wanting to know the name of a font are people working on a computer?
Because we rolled out the mobile update first.
And when will you be rolling out the desktop version?
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just tried a couple of photos of websites from my monitor and it's really nowhere near close to identifying. One of them was roboto from the play store which I'd have hoped would be an easy one. Does it struggle with photos of screens in particular?
No, it does fine with screens. The problem you're encountering is that we don't have any Google Fonts in the MyFonts library currently. The app can only return fonts that we have on MyFonts.
> The app can only return fonts that we have on MyFonts.
Oh, so it's actually a useless tool then. Thanks for the clarification.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#49It's a great program to write when you start learning machine learning, kinda like the next step to OCR.
Since it's hacker news just wondering what would be the best ML program to do it? Also as for datasets I think you can just download a huge ttf library from the net and write a program to render them into png files.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#50It's a great program to write when you start learning machine learning, kinda like the next step to OCR. Since it's hacker news just wondering what would be the best ML program to do it? Also as for datasets I think you can just download a huge ttf library from the net and write a program to render them into png files.
If you want to take it a step further: there's an app ([1]) that allows you to aim your smartphone camera at a sign, and it will identify the font, translate the sign to a different language, and edit the image with the translated text. All in real time.