I often speak font on this blog, not out of passion, but out of necessity! Yes yes! Fonts (font in English) have a considerable importance, which you may underestimate, in the final rendering of the project you are carrying out. Whether it is to write an important letter, choose the font for your site or blog, illustrate an image... in short, the font says a lot about your character and a font already sends a certain amount of information on the nature of your project. It is therefore essential to master the choice of your fonts.
I recently came across the site Identifont which offers a whole series of tools to help you better identify fonts.
In fact, you will be able to find a font based on its characteristics or its name, find fonts similar to a font in question, find fonts that offer icons or even find fonts based on their creator.
Find a font by its characteristics
The first tool therefore allows you to find or retrieve a font based on its characteristics.
You will be asked a series of questions in an attempt to find the font you are looking for.
A list of fonts matching the chosen criteria will be displayed and will be refined as you provide answers.
Find a font by its name
Well, this is easier, if you know all or part of the name of the font, you will be able to find it. Enter the name and you will get a lot of information about the font in question: the designer, the type of copyright, the variants, similar fonts, where you can find it…
Find a font similar to another
You really like a font that you would like to use in a project, but you can't find it online or it's paid. So you would like to find a similar one.
So do a search for the font you are interested in, and the tool will suggest others with the same characteristics.
How to get here
Find a font that contains symbols or icons
This option can be useful since it will allow you to find fonts containing certain images or symbols (a bit like the famous wingdings).
For example, if you want to find fonts that specialize in "cats", type "cat" into your search and you will get all the fonts that contain cat symbols.
Find a font by its designer
Well, this feature seems really more specific to me, but you never know... You will indeed be able to type the name of a font designer or a company that offers fonts (like Adobe, Apple, etc.) to find the entire collection of corresponding fonts.
But that's not all, because beyond these already very practical tools, Identifont offers other features and tools such as a ranking of the most popular fonts or tools to find certain types of fonts or according to certain criteria (large fonts, fonts that work well together, etc.)
In short, Identifont is a bit like the Swiss army knife of font research on the web… and if this subject interests you, I can only invite you to take a look for yourself!
