Most objects are using fonts and many of them will greatly help us to find interesting fonts for our new website, landing page, or whatever we need it for.

The tool that we will use is WhatFontIs. This is the best font finder on the web:

• It is the only system that identifies both free and paid fonts.
• WhatFontIs has a huge database of over 600k indexed free and paid fonts.
• The powerful AI software works with all font foundries, including Google fonts.
• You need to follow 3 simple and straightforward steps.
• The identification process takes usually 40 seconds, and you will find out the name of the font, where to get it from, and the price.
• When you find out the font you wanted identified, you will also get over 60 free and paid font alternatives.
• Price: $0 – free to use (there is also a premium plan with some goodies)

WhatFontIs looks like this, the interface is simple, fast, and super simple to use. You need 0 skills or experience to quickly use WhatFontIs will great success.

Fonts identified from common objects – Complete How To

You know the tool that we will use to identify fonts from common objects, now let’s practice it together. Let’s find and identify interesting fonts for our projects.

Every time we find a picture (or we can make a screenshot from anything we like) with a font that we like, we upload it to WhatFontIs, crop it if necessary, write down the font characters identified by the software (skip this step if you are a registered user, the platform will do it for you), and right after we will have the font identified. It is simple.

Below you will find 10 objects that are from my personal office and which are photographed by me, with my iPhone 7 camera. These are real pictures and objects, you will see how cool, easy to use, and efficient is WhatFontIs.

A BMW R45 motorcycle from 1988

My office is the second floor of my house and the stairs are not straight, just imagine how it was to carry a 200 kg motorcycle 2 floors. 

We will identify the BMW logo font.

The used font is Helvetica.

Get it from here.

Canon laser printer (on top of it is a Mavic Air drone)

Let’s identify the Canon logo.

Canon is using a customized logotype, but we can use a very similar font.

Font: Canon

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Discipline equals freedom – Field Manual – by Jocko Willink

Have you read this book? If not, you should get it, it is a wonderful book that will change how you view your life.

Used font: Krang

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Mitsubishi Electric Air Conditioner

Mitsubishi Electric is a super brand that builds excellent air conditioners. This is a multi-split equipment, with 5 units.

Used font: Elastik Bold D

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Mercedes 300 SL from 1954

I love Mercedes SL, from the very first model to the last.

While the new ones are awesome cars, the old ones are having huge personality and are super are, being very expensive.

Used font: Special Alphabets P11

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JBL WIFI Speaker

All of us have at least one WIFI speaker, right? It is so easy to transport it at a barbeque or wherever is needed.

Used font: Foreign Language Regular

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Scented candle

I don’t know about you, but I love these scented candles. Have you tried it? It will make your room have a unique and natural ambient.

Font used: ZP Good Night

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Mercedes Actros Truck

This Mercedes Actros truck is a full metal diecast, a 40 cm long one and very heavy. It is made with awesome details; it is exactly as the real truck.

Font used: Corporate A BQ Light Font.

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Mavic Air Drone – Remote Controller

Drones are taking awesome pictures. I used a Mavic Air drone to photograph mountains, cars, and motorcycles, but also other things.

Font used: Avenir light

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Seagate External HDD

On this external HDD I have tens of thousands of pictures, my wedding full video, and all my backups.

Font used: Seagate Corporate Fonts

Get it from here. Please check the policy before using them.

Conclusions

This exercise was super interesting and it stressed WhatFontIs Ai software huge (sorry mister Ai guy). This is the most complicated thing that you can achieve with a font finder software.

Usually the pictures that are uploaded to the platform are pixel perfect, straight, and perfectly balanced as they are used in web.

The pictures that I made, are not the best and are not helping WhatFontIs to identify the used fonts, but even so, the font finder is doing a super job, being very efficient.

WhatFontIs is great to find new fonts that will help you in your graphic design projects – websites, marketing materials, posters, landing pages, and everything else.

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What are fonts?

What are fonts? I am often asked this question and I am happy to also answer here.

If you like simple things, like me, you will appreciate this font definition. A font is the design of letters. The font contains all the style details: typeface/point size, weights, color, shape, type, and so on.

Why are fonts important?

Let’s play a simple exercise. Imagine that the internet is all using Calibri (body), the font that I am using right now. No fancy titles, only black words with an identical design. No contrast words, no nothing.

How would such a world look like? Probably it will not be so interesting as it is now.

Fonts will help you personalize your website, your marketing materials, the book you just started to write, and so on. They will help you sell more, attract more visitors in your blog, and easily see where is the metro station.

There are hundreds of thousands of fonts are new ones are being created each month. It is awesome that we have so many options to choose from.

But how we identify new fonts? I browse the internet daily, exactly like you, and many times I find a font that look awesome and I want to use it in my projects. You will see right away how easy it is to identify fonts, without spending dollars and time.

Complete guide to identify fonts for free

Discussing with many people from all over the world how they identify fonts, I was told tons of options:

• Most of them write down the website address and they ask friends and graphic designers what font is that. If they are lucky, they find out in a couple of hours or days.

• Others write down the website address and they ask on Quora and on different forums.

• Some people told me that they search fonts databases and see manually if something is identical or at least similar with that they are looking for.

• The funniest guy told me that he doesn’t bother to identify fonts, it is an impossible mission. He better drinks a beer. Not a bad idea, Mike (not his real name), but I have the right solution for you to identify fonts in seconds, and drink a beer after that.

Are these viable solutions? I can say no from the very first start.

The right tool to use to identify fonts

Let me tell you which is the best font finder in the world, which is also free to use. Its name is WhatFontIs.

Key points about WhatFontIs:

• This is the only system that identifies both free and paid fonts.
• It has a huge database of over 600k indexed fonts, both free and paid.
• WhatFontIs works with all font foundries, including Google fonts.
• The powerful Ai software identifies fonts in 40 seconds and 3 easy steps.
• You will identify the font you want from any image, and you will also get over 60 free and paid font alternatives.
• The tool works also directly from Google Chrome, having a dedicated extension for this browser.
• It identifies fonts for free.

How to use WhatFontIs

There are only 3 easy steps to identify a font.

Step 1

You take a screenshot of the font you want to identify and you upload the picture to WhatFontIs.

To do that, you have 3 options: you drag-and-drop the picture, you hit the upload button and browse for your picture, or you simple write down the picture URL.

Step 2

The software will try to automatically separate the letters. For cursive fonts you will have to separate each letter with the advanced image editor.

Step 3

WhatFontIs will show you the font you wanted to identify with the following information:

• The name of the font.
• Its price.
• Where to get it from with link.
• Over 60 fonts very similar with the font you needed to identify. All fonts come with links to pages from where you can download them for free or buy them.

The whole process of font identification usually takes 40 seconds. I did it in even less but I am used to this tool, using it almost daily.

Pricing plans

Wait, you said that WhatFontIs is free. Yes, it is 100% free to use, but the free plan can be upgraded.

Here are the 3 plans, including the free one.

As you see, the free plan is super comprehensive.

The premium plans are 2 and they differ only by price.

A 1-year license costs $39.99 while you can pay $59.90 ($19.96 per year) and have WhatFontIs premium plan for 3 years.

Conclusions

This complete guide of how to identify fonts for free for beginners and pros will always help you, saving it being a great idea.

You will now have the solution to use better fonts for your projects, to save tons of time when you customers (supposing that you are a web designer or an agency) say they love a font and give you a picture with it, thinking that you know all the fonts in the world (  ), and much more.

Identify fonts like pros, use WhatFontIs.

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The COVID-19 virus hit us all very hard and the humankind was not prepared for something like this. Even after the news in China and quickly after that in Italy, people were still not believing that COVID-19 is much more than a simple flu. This nature of ours has to be changed and to quickly adapt to such disasters.

People from all over the world lost their parents, their babies, their friends, and the luckiest ones lost just their jobs entirely or partially. Is it easy to lose your job or to have bankrupt company? Of course not, but it is much simpler to solve this transient situation.

The article has 2 parts

1. 20 Coronavirus-themed murals from all over the world. Talented designed made these awesome murals.

2. You will find out how to identify the fonts used in these murals and from any given picture.

Let’s start with the first point.

20 Coronavirus-themed murals

This mural is showing us a nurse wearing a “superman” protecting mask. Nurses and all medical stuff are extraordinary people that help us get well and get back to our normal lives, exactly like Superman fought many times for us, in cartoons and movies.

The mural was designed by an artist named FAKE.

This graphic is a combination of Donald Trump and COVID-19.

People bought toilet paper like lunatics (sorry if you were one of them). This is not an item that you cannot live without, especially in a house.

Time ago there were people like the one in the image that was selling watches (we all see it in movies), now he adapted to the situation and he is selling the most desired product (for some of us) – toilet paper.

Again, this is a mural that offer our full appreciation to doctors and nurses.

The original poster said: I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. This was updated for the actual situation with COVID-19.

This mural is again about the craziness with the toilet paper that happened all over the world.

The Simpsons stay home, with protecting masks, and they watch TV.

Stay home is probably the most popular message in the humankind history.

Corona beer and the Corona virus, there were hundreds of jokes (if not more) on this theme.

This is a very strong message – we have to cancel only our plans, not the humanity.

Humankind always helped each other.

We can still kiss and hug each other while we protect ourselves.

10 More Awesome Murals

Beavis and Butt-Head were very cool (google them if don’t know them).

Covid-19 is not letting us move freely.

Wash your hands is probably the second most popular message in the humankind.

This is an adaption from the Uncle Sam US army message.

And again, a mural regarding the toilet paper.

Corona Extra is a great beer that we can drink at home, while we protect ourselves against COVID-19.

It is important not to spread the virus. Many people didn’t pay the right attention to this and that is why at this moment the spread of the virus is huge.

A mural regarding that we should wear masks as often as possible.

A mural regarding the same theme, we should wear masks.

Stay home is a popular message in this period. We all should stay home as much as possible.

This is the solution to get rid of Covid-19.

The very same message in a superb red and white design combination.

Let’s blend in the second part of this article.

2. How to identify the fonts used in these murals

There is a popular and efficient solution to identify fonts from any given picture. Its name is WhatFontIs.

Why is the best?

1. It has over 600k fonts indexed, both free and paid.
2. This is the only system that identifies both free and paid fonts.
3. WhatFontIs works with all font foundries, including Google fonts.
4. It is efficient.
5. The software is lightning fast; it takes less than 60 seconds to identify a font.
6. It is 100% free.

How to use it?

We will use the last picture as a model. To identify the font used in the mural, take the picture and upload it to WhatFontIs – the best font finder in the world.

The next step, if you are not registered (the registration takes only a few moments; you can register with Google and Facebook), is to write down the characters identified by the powerful AI software and crop the picture if necessary.  

WhatFontIs found out that the most similar option to the used font in the mural is Webcomic Bros Bold .It is free and it can be downloaded here.

You have over 60 similar free and paid font alternatives.

This is how you can quickly identify fonts from any pictures. It is simple to use WhatFontIs and you don’t need any experience at all.

Conclusions

Covid-19 will soon end its visit to our world and we will get back to our normal lives.

We should not forget what happened so we can better prepare for the future. Bill Gates declared a long time ago that we will soon fight a pandemic because now millions of people can easily move around the globe.

In this article you saw 20 Coronavirus-themed murals and you learned how to identify the fonts using WhatFontIs. Save this tool and use it whenever you want to easily identify fonts from any given picture, and don’t forget that it is free 100%.

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