This article is useful for all people that want to identify fonts with ease, and especially for people that are already using Photoshop's Match Fonts feature.

If you are among the users of Match Fonts, you know perfectly that while the software is working, and it is pretty good, it is far by easy to use, quick, and accurate.

The solution has some important minuses:

• Match Fonts can also identify fonts that exists in Typekit and Adobe Fonts.
• The process is not so simple, quick, and straightforward.
• You need to learn how to use it.
• Photoshop is needed, Match Fonts is a feature of this software.
• You cannot use it from your mobile device.
• The software is not highly accurate.

There are many other better software solutions on the market that you can use to identify fonts from pictures.

And the winner in the font identification industry is WhatFontIs.

The solution has millions of users, being the most popular font identifier for graphic designers, web designers, developers, agencies, marketers, online entrepreneurs, and many others.

Why is WhatFontIs the most appreciated and used font identification software

Here are some key facts about WhatFontIs

• It has the largest database in the industry - over 850,000 fonts - both free and premium

• This is the single software that you can use to identify both free and paid fonts.

• It works with all font foundries, including Google Fonts.

• WhatFontIs is 100% free to use.

• No registration is needed.

• The software is highly accurate, quick, and simple to use.

• Brilliant interface.

• When you identify a font you get the following info - font name, free or paid, price, download link

• For each identified font, you will get 60+ free and paid font alternatives. This is extremely helpful if you identify a font that it is expensive and you want a cheaper solution.

• Community

WhatFontIs works excellent, even for people that are identifying fonts for the first time.

Here is how to use WhatFontIs.

Use WhatFontIs to identify fonts from pictures, for free, in just a few seconds

There are just a few steps, and the process is straightforward.

Here they are:

To get started, you need to have a picture of the font you want to identify.

There are several ways you can approach this:

a. Upload the picture to www.whatfontis.com

To get the picture of the font, you can:

• Download the picture with the font
• Make a screenshot
• Take a picture with your mobile phone.

Now that you have the picture of the font you like, upload it to WhatFontIs website.

b. Specify the picture URL

I personally haven't used this feature, but for some of you it will be helpful.

The next step is to draw crop box and select the only part of the image where the font is.

4-10 characters is enough.

Optimize the image

Here you will have to select the image with text clearer (character color darker).

Insert characters

Now you have to check every image on the right side and input the characters accordingly.

If you want to see only free fonts, thick the box "Display only free fonts".

Results

Here you get all the information you need:

• Font name
• Free or paid
• Price
• Download link
• 60+ free and paid font alternatives

On this page, you can select if you want to see just Commercial Fonts, Free Personal, Google Fonts (PRO Membership feature - you can try it for free for 7 days).

Conclusions

Once you use WhatFontIs, you will never go back to Photoshop's Match Fonts feature.

Just try it now.