WhatTheFont is an automatic font identification system developed by MyFonts’ Kevin Woodward. To find out the name of a font, you just need a small excerpt of text in the form of an image file. The website then determines the web font based on the letters’ distinctive form. WhatTheFont’s three-step identification process then takes place in a matter of seconds. The scanner always follows the same procedure: Upload, Character Selection, and Results. Here’s how to use the web app:
1. Access WhatTheFont.com in your web browser.
2. Take a screenshot of the excerpt of text you wish to analyze. Windows users can do this with the Microsoft Snipping Tool, a free screenshot tool integrated into Windows systems. In our test, this produced the following image file of sample text: