En la actualidad, existen muchas fuentes diferentes y hay muchos sitios Web y sitios desde donde descargarlas. Sin ir más lejos, si queremos descargar fuentes para Windows 10, podemos recurrir a sitios web como DaFonts or Google Fonts, or to platforms such as Microsoft Store, where we can find a good collection of sources, free and paid, for our projects.
Si conocemos el nombre de la policía, encontrarlo en Internet no es nada complicado. Una de las alternativas anteriores posiblemente lo tiene, y si no, una búsqueda rápida en Google nos permitirá encontrarlo en segundos. Los problemas surgen cuando no sabemos cuál es el nombre de la fuente. ¿Cómo lo buscamos entonces?
Cómo identificar y descargar cualquier fuente usando solo Photoshop
In 2015, Adobe introduced a tool called «Police correspondence«. This tool uses the Adobe OCR recognition engine to analyze any image or background and find out what source it is from.
To do this, once the image is scanned, Photoshop uses the TypeKit database to compare the scanner with the recognized fonts and show us a series of suggested fonts. Once the desired font is found, we can know its name to download it from any page, or take advantage of TypeKit to download, install and add it directly to Photoshop.
This option is in Photoshop, in the «Text> Font Match«.
Seleccionamos esta herramienta y lo que tendremos que hacer a continuación es ajustar el cuadro que aparece al texto que queremos escanear. Cuanto más precisa be, más precisos serán los resultados obtenidos por la herramienta.
In a few seconds a series of fonts similar to the one we scanned will appear. Photoshop will show us in the list the fonts that we have installed on the computer, and if we have connected to Adobe Creative Cloud, at the same time it will show us those from the TypeKit database.
We choose the font that we want to download and use and that's it. We can start working with these sources now.
Other websites to identify and download fonts of any text or image
If we don't like Adobe's tool or don't have access to Creative Cloud, at the same time there are other free web pages that scan any image or text to tell us what font you want to use.
WhatTheFont
One of these pages is WhatTheFont. Esta aplicación nos permite subir cualquier imagen a su server de tal forma que mediante su motor de reconocimiento OCR, identifica el texto de la imagen y nos permite escanear cualquier fuente para la búsqueda de su identidad.
We can see several results similar to the source we analyzed. Next to each result we can see its name (to look for it in other sites) and the possibility of buying said font in this store.
WhatFontIs
Another equivalent alternative is WhatFontIs. This website at the same time allows us to download any image from our computer to analyze it and to be able to identify the sources you are using. If we register, OCR will automatically recognize all characters. Otherwise, we will have to grab some of us (we recommend the most characteristic of the source) to be able to compare it.
This website will show us the names of the fonts and the option to buy it, if paid, or download it. At the same time we can filter between free fonts and commercial fonts.
Identifont
Identifont This is another alternative that will help us to identify all the sources that we can see on the Internet. This website not only allows us to download a snippet of the source so that we can analyze it and tell us what it is (or what looks like it), but at the same time it allows us to guess which source it is based on. of questions.
While uploading a photo with the source we want to guess, at the same time we can identify it by its appearance, part of the name or similarity. It even allows us to search for fonts based on its creator. A more complete option to discover new sources and use them in our projects.
Fontface Ninja
In this specific circumstance, we find an option to search for sources somewhat different from those previously exposed. We tell you all this because speaking of Fontface Ninja, we actually mean an extension for Google Chrome. Su principal finalidad, como podrás imaginar, es identificar las fuentes de las páginas web que visitamos. Para ello, lo único que tenemos que hacer es instalarlo en el browser web y hacer clic en el icono de la extensión para que empiece a funcionar por sí solo.
De esta forma, el propio puntero del ratón se convierte en una poderosa herramienta para identificar fuentes de todo tipo. Esto es algo que logramos pasándolo por encima del texto que nos interesa. En ese punto, veremos la tipografía que se agrega al resto de datos que la coinciden. De todos modos, tenemos que tener en cuenta que el plugin It works with The texts as such, not with texts in Photos. With everything and with that, its operation is very efficient with the elements that we are commenting on.
