Find a Font from an Image File!

While not directly SharePoint, or even Microsoft related, I had to share this tip. I was updating a graphic in a SharePoint site today, which someone else had done, and could not get in contact with them, I had an interesting problem, in which anyone who has done any sort of design has probably come across at some point – how do you find a font based solely on an image?

I found the answer via a quick Google Bing search > http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

MyFonts.com has a neat online utility now, that, allows you to upload an image…

it then attempts to isolate the letters, with verification from you, the end user…

and then attempts to return some possible results!

While I did not find any direct matches with Bing, it is a very cool program, and did work in my case. It may not be the EXACT same font, but, it was 99.5% there, and did the job I needed it to. I think probably the best design feature MyFonts.com put on the results page, is the scrolling image you had uploaded, so that you could accurately match it up with the example results shown.