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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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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 :)
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 :)
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.
Dragos Ivanov
Hi guys, tried it with a screenshot from a font that I`ve used in an app, but is not seeing it. It tells me it`s some other font.
Seah Chickering-Burchesky
Maker
@ivandrag Hey Dragos, it sounds like you might have used a font in your app that we don't have in our database. Even if the app can't identify the exact font, it should give you a very close match.
Dragos Ivanov
@seahcb yes, it gave me some alternatives. I used some fonts from fontpair.co . Anyway, good luck with everything.
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.
Scott Belsky
Folks - you may also want to check out “Adobe Capture” - 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 don’t know about it.
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)
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.
Altay Akkus

I used this product multiple times, until I gave up. It doesnt matter what Font you scan, it will always show you some weird font that costs over 50 Dollars, and is on special Sale today. I cant watch in the backend, but I feel like they are cooperating with the font market in order to get shares.

You can try everything, it will always find a font that costs a lot of money and is on sale currently. So definitely no use in this.

Pros:

You can get an bare idea what font they are using

Cons:

Fonts are often not recognized, and I as a user feel tricked

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.

Gopesh Sardana

I love this app

Pros:

I found about font in any image

Cons:

Perfect app so no cons

Tyler James Young
It says all my photos are corrupted
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@tyjayo Can you please share the screenshot of the issue you are facing on rajat.singh@monotype.com We would love to help you so that you can use the app
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@tyjayo Thanks for sharing the screenshot, can you share any of the image which giving you this error so that we can determine the issue.
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@tyjayo Can you please help us with one such image as we are not able to reproduce it on our end.
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@tyjayo Cool we will try with the error image attached.
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@tyjayo we checked with the error image & it is working perfectly fine on our end. Request you to please email us & help us solve this issue. Feel free to email image which is showing as corrupt at rajat.singh@monotype.com
Pillow John
I actually am having some bad problems with the app. It's not picking up about 2/3 of what fonts I give it. And they are very simple fonts. I would like to wait until they get it right after about a year.
anand vijay
Maker
@arecenello Can you share some pictures on anand.vijay@monotype.com
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
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 I’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!
Raviraj Minawala
This is true innovation! Superb!
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@rv1raj Thank you :)
Nick Hollinger
Great idea team!
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@nick_hollinger Thank you :)
Akshay Kadam(A2K)
Wow, this is dope 😍
Farbod Saraf
Love the naming and the tagline
Louis Coyle
App crashes before recognising anything. Tried twice on an S8+ before uninstalling. Dogs balls.
Rajatdeep Singh
Maker
@louis_coyle Thank you for your valuable feedback. We are working on it & we assure you that this will be resolved soon. Thank you once again for being a loyal reviewer.