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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?
Check out WhatFont Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgc... I think it's 10 times more useful even though you’re not a designer/frontend type of a person and just curious about fonts that are shown in your browser. Obviously doesn’t do what WhatTheFont does, but I think it's a lot more practical. WhatTheFont has been exactly the same since like 2009 if my memory serves correct…
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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.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8402356 Their forum, especially the user "Tecnotronic", represents WhatTheFonts real value.
Is there any kind of percentage match info? Like this is a 90% match or is it pretty binary?
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.