There are situations when you want to know the name of an unknown font.

You can find it in different ways, but some are more effective. I am talking about tools created specifically for font identification.

In this article, we review three solutions for fonts identification.

To find out which is the best font, I did the things below:

• Tried solutions that I found on the web
• Asked in places like Reddit, Quora, and forums
• Receive recommendations from designers

By combining the above results, I found out the best three font identifiers: WhatFontIs, MyFonts, FontsNinja.

WhatFontIs

WhatFontIs was created from scratch to be the best font identifier, highly easy-to-use and efficient. With it, you can identify fonts from any image and website.

Pros

• The software has by far the most extensive database in the industry, with over 790k fonts, both free and paid
• Works with all font foundries, including Google Fonts
• Find with both free and paid fonts
• For each identified font, you get 60+ free and paid font alternatives
• The tool is 100% free to use no matter how many fonts you want to identify
• No registration is required

Cons

• To identify fonts from websites, you have to install the Google Chrome Extension

MyFonts

MyFonts is a fonts distributor with a large font library. It has a simple-to-use font identifier tool named WhatTheFont.

Pros

• Works fast
• Service offers many similar fonts
• Free to use
• Without registration
• You can consult with the online community to find the font

Cons

• This service defines mostly paid fonts
• The online community does not answer all the questions
• Quite a small font database – 130k fonts
• No font identification from websites

Fonts Ninja

FontsNinja is a powerful app and browser extension that will help you identify fonts from websites.

Pros

• Free to use with the browser extension and with the app’s trial version
• You can find a font, their size, letter spacing, line height, and color
• Try fonts on your computer in one click
• Nice interface

Cons

• No font identification from images
• Only 20 fonts in the free trial
• Small database

Real-life test

Now, let’s see how to identify fonts using one of these tools. I selected WhatFontIs for this test.

1. Firstly, I was to take a picture of a font. I uploaded it on whatfontis.com.
2. Then I had to slightly optimize the picture: add contrast and turn down the brightness. Also, you can draw lines between letters if they are too close for better results.

Probably with high-quality pictures you can easily skip this step.

3. After that, I cropped the picture and selected the text that I wanted to identify.
4. I insert the characters that the software identified.

Family, I’ve got the following information:

• The name of the font that I wanted to identify
• Price
• Download link
• 60+ free and paid font alternatives for each identified font

The process took me just a few minutes, and I found many other cool fonts.

Conclusions

Selecting a font manually can be very difficult and time-consuming. With the services we reviewed earlier, you can speed up this process and find the font you want in just a few clicks.