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 ...

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.

The best font identifiers are an essential tool for creatives, saving you precious time when it comes to creative projects. Whether you're looking for a specific typeface or a similar font to spice up ...

There are certain celebrity fonts that get so much play, they’re instantly recognizable. (Looking at you, Helvetica, Comic Sans, and Times New Roman.) But it can be frustrating to sleuth the true ...

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 ...

October 22, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google iOS: The popular font-identifying web site WhatTheFont (our look) now has an iOS app, letting you quickly ...

As designers, marketers, and fans of the Helvetica documentary know, picking a font is one of the most important decisions in the creation of Web and print materials. One of the best tools to help ...

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 ...

Fonts can make or break a design, and knowing how to pair them effectively is a game-changer. From understanding contrast and mood to using tools for identification and licensing, mastering typography ...

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.