Font Finder: What Font Is This? Identify a Font from an Image, Free
Free font finder: drop, paste or link a picture and find the font. Your letters are compared with 3,300+ styles of over 2,000 free fonts (Google Fonts and Fontsource) plus the fonts on your computer, with your letters shown next to each match. Private: the picture never leaves your browser.
1 Add a picture with the text
Choose a picture, or drop it here
or paste a screenshot with Ctrl/⌘ + V anywhere on this page
No picture handy? Try one:
🔒︎ Your picture never leaves your computer: the letters are cut out and compared right here in your browser. Only small letter files of the font library are downloaded.
2 Pick the text and check the letters
Drag a box around the line of text you want to identify.
Click a letter to fix it. ⊕ joins it to the next one, ✂︎ splits it in two, ✕ leaves it out (a smudge, or a letter in another font). A few clear letters are enough: 5 to 10 work best.
3 Closest fonts
Not the right font?
- Pick cleaner letters: a big, sharp, straight line of text works best. Leave out letters that touch, have effects (outline, shadow, 3D) or are blurry, and fix any letter the page read wrong.
- Mostly capitals or mostly small letters? Include a few of the letters that differ most between fonts: a g R Q e k y 2 3 &.
- It may be a paid font. This library has the 2,000+ free open-licence fonts (all of Google Fonts plus Fontsource). Big paid families (Helvetica, Futura, Gotham, Proxima Nova…) are not in it, but their free look-alikes are, and fonts installed on your computer are checked too.
- Other identifiers also search paid fonts (they upload your picture to their servers): WhatFontIs · WhatTheFont · Font Squirrel Matcherator · Identifont (answers questions about the letters).
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Famous paid fonts and their free look-alikes
Found a paid font? These free fonts are close (or made to have the same letter widths). Click one to open it in Font Preview.
How to find a font from a picture
- Add the picture. Choose a file, drop it on the page, paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac), paste a link to a picture, or take a photo on your phone.
- Pick the line of text. The biggest line is picked for you. Click another line, or drag a box around the text you want. Turn or straighten the picture if the text is tilted.
- Check the letters. The letters are cut out and read for you. Fix any that were read wrong, join letters that were split, split letters that touch, and leave out anything that is not a letter.
- Find the font. Your letters are compared with more than 3,300 styles of over 2,000 free fonts, then the closest ones are drawn on your screen and checked again, letter by letter, together with the fonts installed on your computer.
What makes this font finder different
- Private: your picture is never uploaded. Everything happens in your browser; only small letter files of the font library are downloaded.
- Every result is free: all fonts come from Google Fonts and Fontsource under open licences (SIL Open Font License, Apache, Ubuntu Font Licence), so you can use them in logos, videos, apps and print, also for business.
- See why it matches: each result shows your letters next to the font's own letters, or laid on top of them, and the whole text in that font.
- Fonts on your computer count too, so a font you already have shows up next to the free ones.
- No sign-up, no limits, no watermark.
Questions
- How accurate is it?
- On our test pictures of free fonts the right font comes first about 9 times in 10, and is in the top 20 almost every time. Sharp, straight, large text with several different letters gives the best results.
- Why does it ask what the text says?
- Knowing which letter is which lets the page compare your "R" only with R's, which is far more accurate than guessing. It reads the letters for you; you only fix the mistakes.
- Can it find paid fonts like Helvetica or Futura?
- Only if they are installed on your computer. The library is the free open-licence fonts, but it shows free look-alikes of famous paid fonts (Arimo for Arial, Jost for Futura, Montserrat for Gotham and more).
- What about script, handwriting or joined-up letters?
- Letters that touch are split for you once you type the text, and you can split or join them by hand. Joined-up scripts are the hardest case for every font identifier: pick the clearest letters.
- Which letters can be compared?
- A to Z, a to z, 0 to 9, and & ? !. Other characters are skipped.
- Can I use the fonts it finds?
- Yes. "Get it free" opens the font on Google Fonts or Fontsource, "Download .woff2" saves the web font file, and "Copy CSS" gives you the code for a website. Check the licence on the font's page for details.
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