Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Finding out fonts from webpages and logos

Finding a font on a webpage or logo can be very hectic. So what is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage?
click read more to know about the easiest way to find out fonts in webpages and logo pictures.



What Font Tool

What font tool is a bookmarklet and chrome extension to find fonts in webpages. You just have to drag the bookmarklet into your bookmarks bar, click it and point anything on the screen and it will tell you the font that is being used. How simple and easy is that.


What the font
WhatTheFont is a site that lets you upload a logo or any other image that contains text and shows you a list of fonts that are likely to be used in that image. WhatTheFont supports some common image formats like GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, but you can't upload images bigger than 360 x 275 pixels.

After uploading an image, you may need to enter the corresponding letters from the text, since the system can't always detect them accurately. In the example below, the site recognized the font used in Google's logo: Catull.