Think you know fonts like the back of your hand? This new quiz might just test your memory and patience – and all with a little gentle motivation from Owen Wilson. Typeface spot the difference game ...

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It’s a familiar problem for any designer: You’re walking down the street when you spot a glorious typeface in the wild–something that would be perfect for the project you’ve been working on. But you ...

Do you want to know the best chrome extensions to identify fonts used in a live web page? You might want to know the font of a certain web page that is being used and you don’t know what the font is.

Attention typography nerds: a new doodad called The Spector identifies fonts so you can stop getting it wrong. Among the millions of techie innovations that we didn't know we needed until we had it, ...

If you’re a designer, you’ll know that font selection can make or break the effectiveness of your work. Often times when I’m away from home I’ll see signs and ads with perfect type on them, and snap a ...

A new real-world font scanning and automatic color picking device, Spector, may soon be hitting store and/or digital shelves soon — a Shazam for text formatting! Currently not marketed and lacking a ...

Because I get asked this all the time, I thought I’d share with you the best way to identify a font. Does it look like Helvetica? It’s probably Arial. Does it look like a restaurant menu? It’s ...

One of the greatest thrills of a font designer is to see their font being used in a prominent place: a TV show, a commercial, billboard, or—even more exciting—on the packaging of a popular product.

To use font recognition tools, start by uploading an image containing the desired font. Make sure the text is clear and legible in the image for accurate results. Most tools allow you to drag and ...