Determining a Font

Hi,

I have some text images, and I'm trying to determine exactly what font was used to create the text. Does Photoshop offer any way to reverse engineer a font -- ie, look at the pixel patterns of the various letters and then match them to the correct font?

It looks like a fairly standard font, so I'm hoping that if the above is not possible someone might even be able to recognize it by sight. You can find the images here:

http://www.geocities.com/hotquietday/

I've already scrolled through every font on my system without finding an exact match, though I've found some close ones. If anyone knows the exact font, can you please let me know its name, and where I can get it. If not, I'd appreciate any other suggestions about how to solve the problem.

Thanks very much for any help,
cpp

cppaddict wrote:

Hi,

I have some text images, and I'm trying to determine exactly what font was used to create the text. Does Photoshop offer any way to reverse engineer a font -- ie, look at the pixel patterns of the various letters and then match them to the correct font?

It looks like a fairly standard font, so I'm hoping that if the above is not possible someone might even be able to recognize it by sight. You can find the images here:

http://www.geocities.com/hotquietday/

I've already scrolled through every font on my system without finding an exact match, though I've found some close ones. If anyone knows the exact font, can you please let me know its name, and where I can get it. If not, I'd appreciate any other suggestions about how to solve the problem.

Thanks very much for any help,
cpp
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Try:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

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cppaddict writes:

Hi,

I have some text images, and I'm trying to determine exactly what font was used to create the text. Does Photoshop offer any way to reverse engineer a font -- ie, look at the pixel patterns of the various letters and then match them to the correct font?

It looks like a fairly standard font, so I'm hoping that if the above is not possible someone might even be able to recognize it by sight. You can find the images here:

http://www.geocities.com/hotquietday/

I've already scrolled through every font on my system without finding an exact match, though I've found some close ones. If anyone knows the exact font, can you please let me know its name, and where I can get it. If not, I'd appreciate any other suggestions about how to solve the problem.

That looks like a bitmapped screen font, possibly from the X Windows System. Come to think of it, it reminds me of the console font on early SGI workstations. Anyway, it has a Unix sort of look to it.

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Hi,

I have some text images, and I'm trying to determine exactly what font was used to create the text. Does Photoshop offer any way to reverse engineer a font -- ie, look at the pixel patterns of the various letters and then match them to the correct font?

It looks like a fairly standard font, so I'm hoping that if the above is not possible someone might even be able to recognize it by sight. You can find the images here:

http://www.geocities.com/hotquietday/

I've already scrolled through every font on my system without finding an exact match, though I've found some close ones. If anyone knows the exact font, can you please let me know its name, and where I can get it. If not, I'd appreciate any other suggestions about how to solve the problem.

Thanks very much for any help,
cpp

You might want to post to alt.binaries.fonts, or comp.fonts. They are good and quick at identifying fonts.

Hunt

www.whatthefont.com
Sometimes you get lucky and it recognizes the font...

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Hi,

I have some text images, and I'm trying to determine exactly what font was used to create the text. Does Photoshop offer any way to reverse engineer a font -- ie, look at the pixel patterns of the various letters and then match them to the correct font?

It looks like a fairly standard font, so I'm hoping that if the above is not possible someone might even be able to recognize it by sight. You can find the images here:

http://www.geocities.com/hotquietday/

I've already scrolled through every font on my system without finding an exact match, though I've found some close ones. If anyone knows the exact font, can you please let me know its name, and where I can get it. If not, I'd appreciate any other suggestions about how to solve the problem.

Thanks very much for any help,
cpp

You might want to post to alt.binaries.fonts, or comp.fonts. They are good and quick at identifying fonts.

Hunt