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My secret used to be http://www.typophile.com/ which had a font id forum and you'd get an answer from someone usually within a few hours. It was a really cool place. They were down for a while so I don't know if that community re-formed or not.
https://www.reddit.com/r/identifythisfont works fairly well.
It'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. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs
That said, this tech has been around for years and I still think it's magic every time.
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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. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs
I'm not intimately familiar with this app, but I've used Google's version quite a few times. I don't think either really identifies the font much more than separating into a few different categories (e.g. serif vs sans). Not to mention, it struggles with more decorative typefaces. That said, this tech has been around for years and I still think it's magic every time.
I like to identify fonts in a web browser, say the font used on a particular site. I use a chrome app called WhatFont (chrome is the browser i use most). It does the Job,..at least till next year when chrome apps will die.
Their forum, especially the user "Tecnotronic", represents WhatTheFonts real value.
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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.
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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.