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Prepressamess · #1 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 07:29 AM

I am looking for a good Font Identifer software. I Tried Font Expert's Demo, but I did not lik eit and thought it to be limiting.

Does anyone know of other identifers out there?

Thanks.

Pointyhat · #2 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 07:31 AM

I use www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont, works every time, maybe 98%

Prepressamess · #3 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Pointyhat

I use www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont, works every time, maybe 98%

This seems to be a guess the font site, more than a comparision utility that looks at teh font characterisitics. Not bad though, I will bookmark it.

Mungo · #4 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 04:47 PM

I really miss my old font identifier which was an actual person. The art director from one of the agencies who was spot on every time. I would send a jpg or whatever and get a reply straight back even to the extent of whether it was condensed extended etc....

#5 (**permalink**) 12-11-2006, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mungo

I really miss my old font identifier which was an actual person. The art director from one of the agencies who was spot on every time. I would send a jpg or whatever and get a reply straight back even to the extent of whether it was condensed extended etc....

I've still got one of these..!
She been type-setting/paste-up/prepress for 15+ years.
I walk over to her desk show her the font.... and in about 2 seconds she nails it every time. Very nice to have her on our team.

seratne · #6 (**permalink**) 12-12-2006, 02:33 PM

just use courier

#7 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 03:45 AM

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Originally Posted by seratne

just use courier

Good answer.

pspdfppd · #8 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 05:48 AM

don't forget ARIAL. And use the quark palette (at the bottom) to stylize it like: Arial Bold, Italic, underlined with a shadow. Wreaks havoc on the kerning and also the rip but what the hell. That's why they pay us the big bucks, to fix up these messes. I'd also add a touch of "microsoft Wingdings2" for flavour. Don't get confused with the regular wingdings....wingdings2 is a far better product.

I thought Quark would get rid of the character pallet crap in version 5. Now we're at version 7 and that F*&ing thing is still there.

WHY???????????????????????

almaink · #9 (**permalink**) 12-13-2006, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by pspdfppd

don't forget ARIAL. And use the quark palette (at the bottom) to stylize it like: Arial Bold, Italic, underlined with a shadow. Wreaks havoc on the kerning and also the rip but what the hell. That's why they pay us the big bucks, to fix up these messes. I'd also add a touch of "microsoft Wingdings2" for flavour. Don't get confused with the regular wingdings....wingdings2 is a far better product.

I thought Quark would get rid of the character pallet crap in version 5. Now we're at version 7 and that F*&ing thing is still there.

WHY???????????????????????

Not defending Quack but there is no problem in using that pallet as long as you really have the font attributes you apply. A quick look in Utillities/Fonts, with the box in the lower left hand side checked will reveal the font that will rip.

pr0t0 · #10 (**permalink**) 01-03-2007, 10:31 AM

Most of the time I use WhatTheFont, but if that doesn't work and I'm feeling patient, I will also use http://www.identifont.com/ which works by asking a series of questions used to narrow down the font based on certain letter characteristics.