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WhatFont Tool

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What is this for?

What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that's too complicated. It should be just a click away.

Hence I wrote WhatFont, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on.

To embrace the new web font era, WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font. Now supports Typekit and Google Font API .

How to use it?

Bookmarklet, chrome ext., safari ext..

← Drag this to your bookmark bar to install

On any webpage, click your WhatFont bookmark to use the tool.

Full support: Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9.

Limited support: Internet Explorer 8.

↑ Install the extension from Chrome Web Store.

On any webpage, click WhatFont button to use the tool.

Since Safari 12, extension are installed through Mac App Store.

>After downloading, launche the WhatFont app, and enable WhatFont extension in Safari.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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Twitter @chengyinliu

The tool should auto-update itself. If you do not get the newest feature, please reinstall. Minor updates for each extensions will not be logged.

• Added color detection for text.
• Added a tweet button for instant sharing through Twitter.
• Improved style reseting.
• Overall restyling.
• Restructured the code.
• Added font services detection for Typekit and Google Font API .
• (Chrome Extension) Fixed the toolbar button bug, the second click now exits WhatFont.
• Fixed several bugs related to style reseting.
• Added a prompt for <img> and <embed>.
• Added an external service for <img>.
• Fixed several bugs related to DOM to support Internet Explorer 8+.
• Added a detail panel.
• Added a shortcut (ESC) for exiting.
• Added an exit controller.
• Merged Riobard's fork to reveal the font currently in use.
• Where it begins.

Many thanks to Riobard for the font-in-use detecting code.

Thanks to Bennett McElwee for the default font bug fix.

Thanks to @pr0n , @hugoahlberg , @zhusee2 and Brian Majerus for helping me test.

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No personal information will be collected by this script.

Find any font from any image

(commercial or free)

Upload an image, and our AI-powered font finder will match it with over 990K+ fonts, including both commercial and free options. We'll then show you more than 60 similar fonts. Give it a try!

Drag & Drop your image here to identify your font!

You can also write a URL, copy-paste the image or browse by clicking here .

Find out how to get better results from your uploads.

• Please make sure there is one line of text
• The file must be saved in supported format (jpg, gif ,png, svg)
• Maximum file size is 10 MegaBytes
• Only latin letters and numbers

What Font Is - the best font finder tool

How it works.

Some use the system to find a specific font missing from the sources sent by the client or just because they see a nice font and want to know what font is this. We believe you should be able to use the font identifier to search a font regardless of the publisher, producer or foundry. Enjoy our font detector and good luck finding what the font you are looking for!

Drop your photo

Upload a clean image of the text containing the font you need to identify. The system uses advanced AI to find the font in 90% of the cases. The rest of 10% ‘misses’ are usually caused by low quality images (low resolution, text distorted, etc).

See here some examples of what a ‘good’ image looks like.

We’ll try to automatically separate the letters. For cursive fonts you will have to separate each letter with our advanced image editor.

Pick your font

We’ll show over 60 fonts very similar to the one in the image you have uploaded and with links to pages from where you can download or buy them. Please respect the work of the font makers and use the font according to the license (free or commercial) .

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