Search by Sight
by CarolineYesterday a friend of mine wrote a blog post about fonts, and I was looking at some font packages online when I bumped into Fonts.com’s Search by Sight tool.
You start with a sample of a font, whether a document, magazine, or book. The tool asks you about twenty questions — what’s the capital Q look like, what’s the dollar sign look like, and so forth — then tells you the font you’re looking at.
I tested it on the book I’m carrying right now (Stephen King’s Tommyknockers) and got a great, accurate-seeming answer. The tool can at least give you a strikingly close font to the one you’re after, and after that you can search for a free knockoff. The joy of the internet!
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