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desertdeb 06-25-2018 07:42 AM

Finding a special font
 
I'm looking for the EASY button for this, not hours in a computer design program. Often I see a sentiment on a card, or perhaps on a web site or someone's ETSY page and I'd love to know what font they used. For example, there's a new REWARDs set from SU called Hand Delivered that has HB, Congrats, Miss YOU, etc in a font that my sister says is very close to Lucinda Handwriting. So if someone knows a site, or method to maybe copy and search, to duplicate that font, or find a site where it could be downloaded, either free or for minimal cost. Maybe there's a universal directory of fonts?

shazsilverwolf 06-25-2018 08:22 AM

There is a font called Lucida Handwriting, and if you have any Microsoft product on your PC, you should already have it, as it's part of the standard fonts folder. I'm guessing a reverse image search would find the names of fonts you don't recognise, link here tells you how. HERE is a site that you can upload a jpeg image of the font to, and it will try to match it to known fonts.
Good font sites that are free to download from are:
DaFont
1001fonts
Pickafont
Urbanfonts

dini 06-26-2018 03:30 AM

It doesn't look like Lucida to me.

Here's another forum that I've used for matching and identifying fonts...
WhatTheFont! � MyFonts

A listing of available fonts would be a huuuuge undertaking - there are many thousands. I have 2364 on my computer!

Font Squirrel is another great free font site.

Biko8666 06-26-2018 12:35 PM

Thank you ladies. I love fonts

desertdeb 06-27-2018 06:17 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions. Much appreciated..

mshatzma 06-28-2018 08:03 AM

if it's a well known font - say the font used in the New York Times banner header, you can google it, there was always someone who asked that same question. BTW, I also have tons of fonts, and I downloaded an application called FontDoc (I have a mac) http://myplace.frontier.com/~allen.m.smith/FontDoc/ that lets me type in a word of phrase then lets me see how it looks in each font I have installed. It also let me categorize my fonts into custom categories (I did categories like Western, Kids Handwriting, etc)

dini 06-28-2018 10:53 AM

I have a similar organizer called NexusFont - I can sort and filter by tags and also see samples in each font.

papercrafter40 07-05-2018 06:43 PM

Another good font organizer (at least for Windows) is FontExpert by Proxima Software. It allows you to tag & categorize your fonts in ways that make sense to you. I'm still going through my fonts & doing that. I think I'm in the middle of the B's now (they're listed alphabetically currently). It does have categories & tags that are built-in, but I'm a nerdy-enough control freak to want to add to that myself! LOL


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