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How do you know which one?

CES020

CES020

New Member
I'm not a fonthead, and I'm embarrassed to say that I have the capability to look at Times New Roman on a sign and say "I wonder what font that is", and I'll do it again next week.

Having said that, I am more than happy and willing to purchase fonts when we need them. Problem is we deal with people who don't know exactly what they have, nor do they know how to find out.

Right now I have a font to buy and I'm told it's a specific font. I go to buy the font and there are 5 or more variations of that same font. Since I'm looking at nothing but a 50 px tall jpeg off of their website, and the 5 variations are so close to each other, how does one determine exactly which font? Is it the Roman, the semi-bold?

Just curious how you all handle figuring out which font it is when there are several in the same font family that are all so close.

Any suggestions?
 
Jillbeans

Jillbeans

New Member
Yup, post it here and within a few seconds, someone who does recognize fonts at first sight will tell you what it is.
Love....Jill
 
trakers

trakers

New Member
Here is good.

I also use

http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
and
http://www.identifont.com/

Typically they don't work that well, but sometimes they get me close enough with a similar font.

There may be other services like the above. If so maybe someone else will chime in. That would be a good sticky post with links like the above.

I have been amazed at how quickly some people can recognize a specific font though. Me, I can certainly recognize Brush Script as all customers seem to want it [gag].
 
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