Guide
What Font Is This? How to Identify Any Font
You’ve seen a font somewhere, a poster, a screenshot, a logo, and you need to know what it is. The fastest way is to try our own Font Finder tool, then fall back on manual matching for anything it doesn’t pin down.
Try our Font Finder
Upload a photo or screenshot directly to ProFont’s Font Finder, and it’ll analyze the lettering and suggest fonts from our library with a similar look and feel, category, weight, and style, all matched automatically. No signup, no guessing.
Method 2: Browser extensions
Extensions like WhatFont let you hover over any text on a live webpage and instantly see the font name, size, and color being used, no uploading or guessing required. This only works for fonts rendered as actual text on a webpage, not fonts baked into an image.
Method 3: Manual visual matching
When automated tools come up empty, manual identification works by comparing distinctive letter shapes. Focus on these letters first, since they vary the most between fonts:
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Once you’ve narrowed down the general style (serif vs sans, geometric vs humanist), browsing a category page and visually scanning for a match is often faster than any tool.
What to check once you think you’ve found a match
Before committing to a font you’ve identified, confirm the details actually match: compare multiple letters, not just one, check that the weight (thin, regular, bold) matches what you saw, and verify punctuation marks like question marks and ampersands, which vary a lot between similar-looking fonts.
If it’s not on Google Fonts
Not every font is free. Many logos and branded materials use commercial fonts that require a license. If your identification tool points to a premium font, you’ll need to purchase a license from the foundry, or find a free alternative with a similar visual character. See our guide on font licensing explained for commercial use for more on that distinction.
Start browsing
If you have a general idea of the style you’re looking for, browse by category: serif, sans-serif, display, handwriting, or monospace, or jump straight to the Font Finder and let it do the narrowing for you.