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        --Gloria from Woodland, WA

Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database. If WhatTheFont can’t figure it out, you can submit your image to the WhatTheFont Forum where cloak-draped font enthusiasts around the world will help you out!

Upload Your Search Image

Tip: WhatTheFont supports most common image formats, for example GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP. The maximum image size is around 360 x 275 pixels. The ideal letter height for the best search result is about 100 pixels. Try to get the text horizontal and make sure letters are not touching. WhatTheFont will only recognize uppercase and lowercase letters. For more tips and information, please see WhatTheFont Usage Notes. If your image doesn’t work with WTF, don’t worry! You can still submit it to the WhatTheFont Forum.

Example Images

These are ideal scanned images for WhatTheFont. The characters are about 100 pixels in height and the baseline is horizontal. Click on an image to automatically upload it to WhatTheFont.

WTF search tips from Cameron Fraser:

• The number of characters in your scanned image makes a significant difference in the accuracy of the search results.
  • Max components (characters): 25
  • If you are identifying a font that is very similar to others:
    • use as many characters as possible or a total of 25 and;
    • use characters that are unique to this font
• If possible, space the characters apart more than normal
• Max image size is 200,000 pixels (width x height)
  • ideal max. size of file containing NO descenders:
    120 pixels x 1666 pixels @ 300 dpi
  • ideal max. size of file containing descenders:
    160 pixels x 1250 pixels @ 300 dpi
• Best file format: Tiff, Grayscale, 300 dpi

If you have any technical queries or comments about WhatTheFont or have any difficulties, please contact us.

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