TIP: Naming a Font!

Grazie wrote on 4/13/2009, 10:59 PM

Inspired by a thread, "elsewhere", in terms of a User needing to "name-that-font" I went and discovered this website that takes you through the process of identifying a Font from a series of dead easy questions!

Try it out. Click on the "Identify" button. If you aren't successful, at the very least it is really good fun!! http://www.identifont.com/Identifont - Good Kama![/link]

Grazie

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FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/13/2009, 11:50 PM

also a great way to find a font if you have a specific idea in your head and don't know what to use.

Dave

farss wrote on 4/14/2009, 12:38 AM

Excellent find, thanks.

I believe there's another site that'll find a font by you uploading a bitmap of the font. Never tried it myself and sorry, don't have a link to it.

Bob.

Grazie wrote on 4/14/2009, 12:46 AM

http://ilovetypography.com/2007/08/19/identify-that-font/This is one for Bob![/link]

farss wrote on 4/14/2009, 12:59 AM

Two Thank Yous in one day!

I kind of like the Q&A method as more often than not it's near impossible to get a 'clean' sample of the font.

One day I'll pull me digit out and buy a font manager, I've got a collection that's quite unmanageable and many of dubious origin.

Bob.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/14/2009, 6:01 AM

I stumped it! :) I'm guessing the Quake font isn't in their database.

but since we're on the topic of fonts...

[url=http://www.yourfonts.com/]

You can make your own fonts. Free. Copyright you. Well, free until a certain # of free ones are given away, but it IS awesome!

CorTed wrote on 4/14/2009, 8:37 AM

I have used this site in the past. They have some cool fonts for free

http://www.dafont.com/

Ted

Stringer wrote on 4/14/2009, 2:36 PM

Lots of free fonts here, including Quake ..

http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/quake.htmlSimplyTheBest[/link]