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WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by mvarrieur »

mvarrieur wrote: post #19

Here is one that works for text on a page for webfonts, I find myself using it all the time: https://fount.artequalswork.com/

Since that page doesn't seem to be loading, here is a gist with the relevant bookmarklet. You click it once to turn on Fount, click a piece of text on the page, and it will show you in the top right the font-family, font-size, etc. (as it actually rendered on your machine vs. what the CSS says it should do):

https://gist.github.com/mvarrieur/444e8e45c31f241e5b37334d94...

Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by maaaats »

mvarrieur wrote: post #21
mvarrieur wrote: post #19

Here is one that works for text on a page for webfonts, I find myself using it all the time: https://fount.artequalswork.com/

Since that page doesn't seem to be loading, here is a gist with the relevant bookmarklet. You click it once to turn on Fount, click a piece of text on the page, and it will show you in the top right the font-family, font-size, etc. (as it actually rendered on your machine vs. what the CSS says it should do): https://gist.github.com/mvarrieur/444e8e45c31f241e5b37334d94...

Firefox devtools got this built in. Just inspect an element, select the Fonts-tab.

Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by welcomebrand »

seahcb wrote: post #12

Hey, 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?

Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by fredoliveira »

freshyill wrote: post #25
nerdponx wrote: post #8

Funny this was posted today, I literally just had this idea about an hour ago, after coming across https://reddit.com/r/identifythisfont Glad to see the smart people aren't slacking in being smart.

This has been around for many, many years.

The mobile app has literally just been launched.

Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by artificial »

welcomebrand wrote: post #26
seahcb wrote: post #12

Hey, 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?

Are you using another device to capture the screen contents or directly dumping the screen to a file?

Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts

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Post by CamelCaseName »

castis wrote: post #14

Shouldn't Shazam be the WhatTheFont for music?

It looks like Shazam [0] and WhatTheFont [1] [2] were both released around 1999. That said, Shazam's 1 billion + downloads indicate to me a success far greater than WhatThefont's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(service)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000818111401/https://www.myfon...

[2] http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ (the copyright date)

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