WhatFont Chrome and Safari WhatFont Chrome and Safari Extension is my favorite option when it comes to font discovery.

How to know the font of a text. Open the image in Photoshop and select the Rectangular Marquee Tool. The Matcherator excels with powerful technology and features under the hood and allowing you to match OpenType features. You just have to upload the image whose font you would like to know.

Select Inspector Firefox or Computed Chrome in the new bottom windows and scroll down on the right until you reach Font or font-size. Identifont by name. Highlight the text again in the word processing document and look.

In the window on the right side of the screen look for the text using the font you want to check out. If youre using a Mac the equivalent is CmdShiftI. Find Font from Logo Image.

You can type in the name and IdentiFont will display similar fonts to you. It will become highlighted when you select the corresponding HTML. This tool is one more example of Fontspring leading the industry in font curation and discovery.

Sometimes the standard fonts installed on your operating system just dont cut it and browsing free. Copy that text right-click with your mouse and select Copy or press CtrlC on your keyboard. If you know a part of the fonts name and you arent completely sure.

For best results upload a good quality image and make sure the text is horizontal. Fontspring Matcherator is easier to use than the first option since you only need to click on the font you want to identify. Once uploaded the service will automatically find the most appropriate match in the database.