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I'm looking for the EASY button for this, not hours in a computer design program. Often I see a sentiment on a card, or perhaps on a web site or someone's ETSY page and I'd love to know what font they used. For example, there's a new REWARDs set from SU called Hand Delivered that has HB, Congrats, Miss YOU, etc in a font that my sister says is very close to Lucinda Handwriting. So if someone knows a site, or method to maybe copy and search, to duplicate that font, or find a site where it could be downloaded, either free or for minimal cost. Maybe there's a universal directory of fonts?
There is a font called Lucida Handwriting, and if you have any Microsoft product on your PC, you should already have it, as it's part of the standard fonts folder. I'm guessing a reverse image search would find the names of fonts you don't recognise, link here tells you how. HERE is a site that you can upload a jpeg image of the font to, and it will try to match it to known fonts.
Good font sites that are free to download from are: DaFont 1001fonts Pickafont Urbanfonts
if it's a well known font - say the font used in the New York Times banner header, you can google it, there was always someone who asked that same question. BTW, I also have tons of fonts, and I downloaded an application called FontDoc (I have a mac) http://myplace.frontier.com/~allen.m.smith/FontDoc/ that lets me type in a word of phrase then lets me see how it looks in each font I have installed. It also let me categorize my fonts into custom categories (I did categories like Western, Kids Handwriting, etc)
Another good font organizer (at least for Windows) is FontExpert by Proxima Software. It allows you to tag & categorize your fonts in ways that make sense to you. I'm still going through my fonts & doing that. I think I'm in the middle of the B's now (they're listed alphabetically currently). It does have categories & tags that are built-in, but I'm a nerdy-enough control freak to want to add to that myself! LOL
Finding a special font
