Font Guides
Practical, jargon-free guides to help you identify fonts and understand typography. Whether you are working from a screenshot, a website, or just a vague memory of "that nice font," start here.
How to Identify a Font from an Image
Found a font in a screenshot, logo, or photo and want to know its name? This step-by-step walkthrough shows you how to capture a clean sample, note the font's characteristics, and use our free visual comparison tool to track down a match.
Read the guide →Free Font Identifier Tools
Our three free tools compared side by side — plus honest mentions of well-known external options like WhatTheFont, Matcherator, and Identifont. Find out which approach fits your situation so you can pick the right tool the first time.
Read the guide →How to Find What Font a Website Uses
Like the typography on a website and want to use the same font? Learn three practical methods: inspecting with browser DevTools, using a font-inspector extension, and checking the page source for font links. Step-by-step for Chrome.
Read the guide →Font Terms Glossary
Serif, x-height, kerning, leading — typography is full of jargon. This plain-language glossary defines 14 common font terms in one or two sentences each, so you can describe fonts accurately and get better matches.
Read the guide →Prefer to skip straight to the tools?
Upload an image to compare it against popular fonts, answer a few questions about the font's appearance, or browse the full font library.