which font program is the best to identify fonts?

[ironchef]

im looking to buy or subscribe to a font id program, which is the best? what do you guys use?

 

[Drip Dry]

"Find my font" seems to be what everyone is using. Works very well . Cost about 50.00

 

[kheebl]

Find my font is awesome, will it find every font nope but it finds a lot of them

 

[signbrad]

Two online font finders that I use:

From What Font is.com:
What Font is | WhatFontis.com

From Myfonts.com:
What the font?
WhatTheFont! << MyFonts

Mobile version for iphone:
WhatTheFont Mobile: Overview << MyFonts

Fontspring's Font Matcherator claims to be better than both, but I haven't tried it yet:
Fontspring Matcherator :: Find Fonts From An Image

I have not used the purchased software, so I don't know how the above free sites compare with it.

Also, I have used a site that finds fonts based on your answers to a series of descriptive questions:
Identifont - 1: Serif or sans-serif?

Brad in Kansas City

 

[timgo]

Typograf

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Typograf is one of the best font utilities we've seen, commercial or shareware. The Typograf top class font manager previews all OpenType, TrueType, PostScript Type 1 and printer fonts, displays all font properties 7D7D7D !important](typeface classification, kerning pairs, designer, copyright... views character set, keyboard layout, zoom view, finds similar fonts and compares several fonts, prints fonts in many ways and manages fonts in database, Sets and networks. Typograf font manager for OpenType, TrueType and Type 1

 

[Fred Weiss]

Having developed and published the first application to identify fonts (FontFinder) in 1993, I can tell you that the FindMyFont program is the best program ever to come along. Why you ask???

• An online database of fonts that is being added to regularly by the developers.
• The ability to add in your own fonts on your local hard drives.
• The ability to compensate for modifications like slant or emboldening having been applied to the sample you're trying to identify.
• The ability to adjust back to near original condition if the font sample has been distorted.
• Inclusion of freemium fonts instead of just commercial fonts.
• Inclusion of industry standard names and clone names in a % ranked list in the same search result.
• A high success rate of identification in one to five minutes.

 

[Pippin Decals]

They just did an update the other day to improve it.... here is the link for those who have it ...


Copied and pasted the info for you from another post---------

The update to the latest version is - as always - free for all existing customers.
You can download it by entering your License-No at the following URL:
Product Update (to Latest Version)

For first time readers, you can download a 30-days-trial here.
You can also find a detailed version history here.

So what's new in FmF v3.3?

1. We fixed some minor bugs mostly related to GUI & appearance

2. We have added new localizations for the GUI (the Help is still in English, sorry about that)
so you can now switch the GUI to one of the following languages:

English
Spanish
French
German
Portuguese (Br)
Italian
Greek


3. As you probably know you can identify the fonts of an image by searching both the fonts on your computer (installed or not) and the fonts of our Online Font Database. We constantly add new fonts in the online database (currently at about 141.000 fonts) and no application update is needed to see the new fonts, but you can now select among the following matching categories:
a) All Fonts - (Matches all categories bellow)
B)Commercial - Matches only commercial fonts
c) Freemium - Matches fonts which are either 100% free or free for personal use, donationware, etc. like fonts from Dafont.com or Google-Web-Fonts which can be freely downloaded
d) Google Web Fonts - Matches only Google fonts. This is especially useful for web designers recreating the images of an existing site or for anyone who wants e.g. to select an existing font and find the best free equivalent offered by Google Web Fonts collection.
e) Gerber Fonts - Matches only Gerber Omega Fonts, which includes both the Gerber Omega software proprietary fonts + all URW True Type Fonts offered by Gerber Technology

I think the most important update for you here in signs101 is the ability of Gerber Fonts matching as you can easily identify if an old sign is created using a custom Gerber Font. Note though that the category "Gerber Fonts" in Online-Search requires a special Find my Font License-No which is provided for free with the latest Gerber Omega 6.0 release.
If you are an existing Find my Font user, please contact us for a free upgrade to a Gerber-enabled license by sending us an email to support(at)findmyfont.com or through our contact form

Thank you again for your valuable feedback here at signs101 which helped us a lot during FmF developing.
We are always open to hear about any issues or your suggestions to further improve the product.

Cheers
Fivos

Having developed and published the first application to identify fonts (FontFinder) in 1993, I can tell you that the FindMyFont program is the best program ever to come along. Why you ask???

• An online database of fonts that is being added to regularly by the developers.
• The ability to add in your own fonts on your local hard drives.
• The ability to compensate for modifications like slant or emboldening having been applied to the sample you're trying to identify.
• The ability to adjust back to near original condition if the font sample has been distorted.
• Inclusion of freemium fonts instead of just commercial fonts.
• Inclusion of industry standard names and clone names in a % ranked list in the same search result.
• A high success rate of identification in one to five minutes.

 

[Jackpine]

Having developed and published the first application to identify fonts (FontFinder) in 1993, I can tell you that the FindMyFont program is the best program ever to come along. Why you ask???

• An online database of fonts that is being added to regularly by the developers.
• The ability to add in your own fonts on your local hard drives.
• The ability to compensate for modifications like slant or emboldening having been applied to the sample you're trying to identify.
• The ability to adjust back to near original condition if the font sample has been distorted.
• Inclusion of freemium fonts instead of just commercial fonts.
• Inclusion of industry standard names and clone names in a % ranked list in the same search result.
• A high success rate of identification in one to five minutes.

I'm going to try this out. I am sure it will be good.