font detective

[Marekdlux]

http://www.whatthefont.com
is sometimes helpful.
It lets you upload an image and it tries to match the font.
-Marek

[Andrew Ritchie]

Rich,

Try using http://www.whatthefont.com.

I find this the best for finding similar if not exact matches to fonts.

All you need is a decent scan sized at 100 pixels high.

Andy 😎

[Richard Urquhart]

i have used this site but just thought there may be a better way of doing it
thanks rich

[Peter Normington]

Rich,
ther are millions of fonts around, I seem to recall that one of the popular sign programmes I tried out as a demo had a font detective, (I know signlab does) but the one I tried worked a bit better, unfortunatley, they only seem to be able to analyse the fonts already on your system.
so like the aswers above,
Or post here, someone may regognise,
Peter

[Richard Urquhart]

just did a quick test
did a sample in flexi
font used bimini save as j peg to 100pixels
but what the font did not come up with good results

[Carrie Brown]

I have tried whatthefont a few times too ……. but so far its never come up with good results either ….. must be the fonts we are using Rich?? 😕

[Graham Martin]

I use http://www.fontlab.com/index.php this helps me, I am not doing sign’s like you guys, I am painting Edwardian Script most of the time. I do find font lad is good for me, I have down loaded the Scan font side also,
Hope this site maybe helpful Richard

[Jim Clough]

Try http://www.identifont.com
Jim

[Nigel Pugh]

Future Corporation who produce VM Pro do a font detective program.

[Richard Urquhart]

thanks all i will try your sugestions
re vmp i see they see font detective on its own £199 has any one used this ??/
is it worth the money i have asked for a demo disc to try !!

[Graham Martin]

quote Jim Clough:

Try http://www.identifont.com
Jim

I have just had a look, nice site,

[Marcella Ross]

Rich,

I tried vmp font detective a couple of years ago ….. I wasn’t impressed. But perhaps they have improved it since then I don’t know. I have also used http://www.identifont.com not very often does it come up with the correct font, but it’s worth a try.

Truthfully, the BEST font detective is…………. UKSB! Usually someone here knows what you’re looking for!

[Niklas]

Hi!

Give this a try http://www.fontexpert.de/english.htm

/Niklas