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Rajatdeep Singh

WhatTheFont - Shazam for fonts! Identify fonts with your camera.

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WhatTheFont uses Artificial intelligence to identify fonts in a design. Great for designers, crafters and anyone who loves typography. Perfect for when you see a great design and want to identify the fonts, or when your client sends you an image but doesn't know what fonts were used.

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Seah Chickering-Burchesky
Maker
Hey everyone, we're excited to launch this brand new version of WhatTheFont for mobile! This app is super useful when you see a design in the real world or on social media, and want to know what fonts were used. With this release, WhatThefont is now powered by deep learning, and it knows how to identify 130,000 fonts. It can even find a close font match for hand lettering script styles. I did the UX design and acted as product owner for this app, so please feel free to comment with any questions or feedback. Happy font hunting!
Tekeste Kidanu
@seahcb I played with it and it was not able to identify Roboto, Lato some other popular fonts. Is there anything special I need to do when taking the photo?
Seah Chickering-Burchesky
Maker
@iamtekeste You're not doing anything wrong. We're just limited by not having Google Fonts in the library currently.
Eliad Moosavi

It's a good tool if you want to pay for your fonts, but doesn't really show you the free matches

Pros:

Good and accurate scan of photos

Cons:

Mostly tries to recommnd fonts that are on sale on myfonts.com, and doesn't always give you the free recommendations

anand vijay
Maker
Thanks Eliad for your honest review. We started with the whole myfonts library. We will see how can we add more free fonts into the system.
Rajan Ramachandran
@anandvijay619 I really loved the idea and was about to install the app, thanks to Eliad's review, I decided not to. It will be great if you can extend this to other font sources too.
Kiran Vemuri
Love the app. It'd be great if the picture taken to identify the fonts from the app can be automatically deleted after fetching the results.
anand vijay
Maker
@vemkiran We will bring this feature in our product discussion. Thanks :)
John Batty

Example; Printed out our company name in Gilbert Sans MT Condensed - an installed font for Windows since ..... App suggested Lomo Wall chart Std 52, which is nothing like.

Pros:

It's a great idea and simple to use

Cons:

Could not identify even Windows fonts correctly. Not even close.

Akshay Kadam(A2K)
Wow, this is dope šŸ˜
Farbod Saraf
Love the naming and the tagline
Gopesh Sardana

I love this app

Pros:

I found about font in any image

Cons:

Perfect app so no cons

Jay Mutzafi
Hell yes!
Raviraj Minawala
This is true innovation! Superb!
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@rv1raj Thank you :)
Csaba Kissi
If it really works as its described then this is the app of the month for me.
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@csaba_kissi It does, request you to play around with the app & share any valuable feedback you have.
Jeremy Sh
Simple but awesome. Great job!
Abid Omar

Will be so glad if there is a bookmark button for fonts.

Pros:

Great UI, Easy to use & Very Fast.

Cons:

Some fonts are not identifying correctly, But still good at showing look-al-like ones.

Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
Thanks for your review Abid, will surely take this into consideration. Thanks :)
Scott Belsky
Folks - you may also want to check out ā€œAdobe Captureā€ - an iOS and Android app our teams made to identify / capture a font you like in the wild, (AND sync across Ps, Ai, etc...). It also does the same thing for colors, patterns, vector objects and brushes. Am surprised more folks donā€™t know about it.
W I R L I X
This is an awesome idea!
Nick Hollinger
Great idea team!
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@nick_hollinger Thank you :)
Sandhya Ramachandran
Oh my god. All my life THIS WAS WHAT I WANTED! Thank you! Trying it out.
Momshad Khan
Maker
@thedreamydryad Thanks! Great to know . #WhatTheFont
Anand Nair
Great to see how Myfonts and Monotype is upping the game. Back in 2012-13, when the Myfonts web site and platform was getting overhauled, I approached a senior developer there with an idea of crowdsourced font discovery, and he gracefully provided me with the access to their API and entire font library. With that in hand, we have developed a small app called Fontli , where the idea was similar but not with such awesome machine language capabilities. You click a picture, post it to the public and they help you identify the font. A social network for type nerds built with the Myfonts database. It was a decent hit at the time, but unfortunately we could not figure out a good business modal and it just stayed as a pet project. This is the future, and congrats to the team behind this. Hope they will build more community featrures around this. There is a great scope for a dribbble like show and tell visual network around this platform. For those interested, Fonli is at www.fontli.com (not actively supported anymore)
Edward Vasquez
Awesome!
Sergey P
Great! Always wanted such an app! Got it on my phone already and will try to identify some fonts!
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@spanarin Would love to know your feedback :)
Sergey P
@rajatdeep_singh tested on few printed fonts - it seems that AI yet to be trained much better, it could not recognize default Colibri from Microsoft Excel printout
Seah Chickering-Burchesky
Maker
@spanarin Hey Sergey, I just tested and I was able to get it to recognize Calibri. Here are some tips that might help: make sure the crop box is only around one line of text, and try to get a photo that's straight-on and not at an angle.
Sergey P
@seahcb Iā€™ve tried this way - yeah, it found Calibri but just on the fifth place - after La Veronique, Quodlibet, CP Company and Lemon Sans. But I got that I need some accuracy on making photos and selecting text on them!
Rayev Kaniyet
Finally!