You’ll never find that font again, or will you?
As designers we used to rely on colleagues or our brains to match a font. When we drew a blank we would end up tracing the client’s type with paths. No more. Now there are online resources for matching fonts.
Narrowing it Down
I know of a couple of sites that let you narrow down your font selection one step at a time by identifying the traits that your target font has. You can search by sight at identifont.com which I’ve been playing with all day and you can also try to the search by sight tool at fonts.com
Another option is to try myfonts.com where you can upload an image file which will be processed and compared to their database for close matches. Very cool.
Going Old-School
A last resort is utilizing methods that have been around forever. You can do take old fashion approach of looking through hundreds of fonts using windows font preview or a font manager such as Suitcase or ATM, but from here on out you can at least try taking a shortcut before you trace a logo or dig through a thousand fonts.
Hopefully we’ll never have to endure the accumulated weeks of time that we’ve all spent in the past tracing text from client’s logos. It’s great that the future is here.
Happy font hunting.