WhatTheFont font identification

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bazzah
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Post by bazzah »

The best way to identify a font at https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ is to have crisp black text on a white background. Here is a quick guide on how to achieve this. The outcome will depend on the quality of the original image text, and contrast between foreground and background.

Crop the text that you want to identify, by selecting the area with the Crop Tool ( C) and pressing Enter

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Now select the text by going to Select -> Color Range. Click the dropper tool on the text and adjust the Fuzziness slider until the desired text is white and the background is black (depending on your Selection Preview). Press OK

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Create a new layer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + N) and fill the selection black.

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Hide the original layer, and change the background to white

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Now save your image and upload it to WhatTheFont. Hopefully you will get some good results

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Post by sauron »

Nice tutorial on this Baz!
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Post by ripley »

indeed, nice trick...
whatthefont is not accurate at 100% sometimes, for me, with the colored Titles.

Will try this for sure
Thanx a lot.
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Nice Tut Baz!
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