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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?
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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 |
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. |
Thank you ladies. I love fonts
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Thanks for all the suggestions. Much appreciated..
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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)
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I have a similar organizer called NexusFont - I can sort and filter by tags and also see samples in each font.
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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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