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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Down below, you can find popular music genres like indie, grunge, pop, hiphop, even metal. Many of the fonts we picked may be inspired by popular logos in the genres community .

Indie

The best pick for indie is most definitely Amperzand. Indie is melodic, accompanied by smooth instruments  that might be similar to the Amperzand font. This music font looks smooth and easy going, while also being sophisticated as most indie songs can be. The Amperzand font has a vintage look to it that most indie artists try to achieve.

The slant and curves of this font are really calming and visually appealing, matching the indie effect, therefore making it the perfect font to describe the indie genre.

Grunge

Rebellious, fearless and brave are words that describes the grunge genre while reminding us of the Onyx font. This font is bold and embraces the rebellious and fearless side of grunge. The height of the letters shows a more courageous side of somebody’s personality.

This font is also very known in the grunge community since popular grunge band Nirvana used the font for their logo.The Onyx font is a big reminder of Nirvana and maybe that’s another reason why this font is suitable for this genre.

Pop

Pop is a known and frequently listened genre and is a perfect match for Amazing Grotesk font, which looks familiar, yet unique in its own way as well. This font can really stand out in a text. It could give out nostalgic senses like many pop songs do.

This font is vastly used in the pop community for commercials or logos. We can see that similar fonts are used by artists such as Ariana Grande, who used a similar font in her album cover “Sweetener”, and Billie Eilish, whose logo has a font that is very a like.

Metal

If you consider yourself an extreme and daring person, then you most certainly listen to or have listened to metal before. Pastor of Muppets is a really edgy music font. The logo for Metallica, a legend of the metal genre, uses this font, so this must mean something!

The letters are really bold and loud, we might say, some letters even look like thunder bolts. Pretty hardcore, right?

Pastor of Muppets is the best way to see the metal genre as a font and it’s very recognisable too.

Hip-hop

King Kendrick is a really good choice when it comes to hip-hop, not only for its talent, but also for the font he uses on his album covers. This recognisable font is made in such a way to resemble graffiti art. This graffiti look alike font is perfect due of its “hood” vibe. It resembles a lot of album covers and hip-hop themed art.

This font is very self explanatory and simple, but also cool looking and groovy. It’s modern and radiant like most hip-hop music these days.

Looking for more music fonts or fonts in general? Go to WhatFontIs.com , it’s heaven when it comes to fonts!

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Get a Hawaiian vibe with Tangier Black font

Get your outfits ready for holiday! There’s no other font that makes us think about Hawaii than Tangier Black. Its script looking body and its subtle tilt to the right would look astonishingly on a colourful summer top.

Pollen might look nice on a coaster

You know, for that nice bar on the beach, that serves the best Margaritas on the entire island…it’s perfect! Pollen is easy to read, airy and suitable for quick looks. It’s awesome for coasters, menus and all kinds of messages that could be displayed in a bar or in a restaurant. If you don’t come across during your vacation, suggest it to your favourite place on the island. Who knows, maybe they’ll reward you with free Margaritas for your entire stay.

Rumba could easily give you directions

One of our favourite tropical inspired fonts is definitely Rumba. Almost sounding like a dance style, Rumba is friendly looking and seems like it would give us a hand if ever in need. That’s why we find it more than suitable for street signs all around the island. Thumbs up for the dancing moves!

Feel like a native with Bombora

Bombora looks like one of those fonts you could easily use for a hotel or a resort branding. It’s representative for the island’s lifestyle and undoubtedly has the potential of being remembered by many.

Take the Hawaiian vibe back home with Tribeca Regular

How awesome would it be if you could buy souvenirs engraved with Tribeca Regular? A little statue, a small drawing or a vividly coloured painting written in Tribeca is something you definitely need in your souvenir collection.

Looking for font inspiration? Go on Google, write down WhatFontis.com and enjoy your own sea of fonts. You’ll surely find that one cool font that you are looking for!

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Barrafina

From where we’re standing, Reforma Grotesque Medium looks like a pretty close match. Simple, tall and modern, this font is a keeper.

Bao Fitzrovia

Bold and all caps, Folio Medium font is quite the right choice for an asian restaurant. It has a certain vibe to it that we love and that inspires us.

Clipstone

Our closest match for Clipstone, one of London’s minimalist looking places, is the Vicky Ultralight font. Clean and modern, you better add this font to your shortlist!

Honey & Co.

Honey & Co. has a very cool and young vibe to it. We can partly owe that to the font choice. Urania_Piccola_II font looks retro, yet very trendy. It kind of remind us of the stamp looking font we previously talked about here.

KILN

It surely stands out and without a doubt this is due to its boldness and uppercase letters. KILN used Poligon Black font for its name and we think it’s a right choice for this friendly looking font.

If ever curious about fonts that surround you, whether it’s a shop or restaurant, take a picture and upload it on WhatFontIs.com. Without any doubt, you’ll find plenty of similar fonts on our website that you can further use for your own creative projects.

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