Meh... https://imgur.com/a/BSrL2 ;-)
Doubtful you would ever see bitmap fonts working here. MyFonts doesn’t usually sell bitmap fonts either.
WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
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Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#72AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.
I think Adobe is now offering something like that with the latest Creative Suite, though I don't know if it employs ml. The last Photoshop had that functionality and they seem to have expanded on it.
I was wondering if that is what inspired this thread, the threat of Adobe.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#73AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
I used it to find the font that Postman uses in their results. No luck.
But a tweet to Postman reveals they use Cuisine, which is a very pretty font.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The app can only return fonts that we have on MyFonts. Oh, so it's actually a useless tool then. Thanks for the clarification.
Hey, that's not nice. MyFonts is one of the best font sites I know of, with a huge selection of fonts and top designers. There are regular offers on new fonts, and informative interviews (great for discovering typefaces). I find WTF very useful. Sure, it's not perfect, and I continue to hope for better accuracy and results. I'm glad to hear they're working on it.
> Hey, that's not nice.
"Useless" is a bit strong, but the comment emphasizes the tool's most important limitation.
I might've said "Since WhatTheFont doesn't include fonts typically used on web sites, this tool is radically more effective when identifying fonts used in printed materials."
I'd like to understand if the team considers this to be a problem that they plan to solve, or if WhatTheFont will only identify fonts that they can monetize. (No judgement either way.)
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#75Looks like a great machine learning problem.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#76Doesn't this predate Shazam? Isn't it more a case that Shazam is WhatTheFont for music?
Probably, if your criteria is date of establishment to make such a statement. I gander for most it’s instead popularity and ubiquity
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#77AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
> I don't think I've ever found the actual font. I did, sometimes. When it works, it works great, but often it doesn't. There are also Matcherator [1] and What Font is [2], but they are not better or worse in my admittedly limited experience. [1] https://www.fontspring.com/matcherator [2] https://www.whatfontis.com/
Personally, I've had much more luck with the manual font identifying tools which ask you specific questions about the letters you have. Mostly because often the font I'm looking for is on an image with a lot of noise and these automatic systems have a hard time isolating the letter.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#78AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
I've been using them a bunch for this little plaything https://javascriptbabybooks.com/ and since I don't need to find the exact font (a close match is just fine), they've been wonderful.
Personally, I don't use the mobile app and my use case is only on the desktop, so I hope they roll their update out for the desktop soon.
Re: WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts
#79Wow, this was never featured on HN? I use WhatTheFont since ages, helped me a lot!
It was, you can get a history of submissions for a domain by clicking the domain name to the right of a HN article title. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=myfonts.com
Didn't know that.
Looks like WTF was first submitted 3444 days ago -- nearly 10 years!