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Useful font tools

  • 31-07-2002 12:04am
    #1
    phaxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭


    Just stumbled across this list of nice font tools, thought it would be of use to some here.
    http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/gmm/fwfont.shtml

    Font renamer, a few font viewers (for both installed and uninstalled fonts) and they're all free.


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  • #2
    Figment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Figment


    i use the bigger version of one of those programs which is great. http://www.theill.com/fl/default.asp
    it allows grouping of fonts and installing and uninstalling.


  • #3
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,550 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    While on the subject of fonts, anyone know of a tool which given text in a bitmap/GIF/JPG will correctly identify the font with a reasonable rate of success?

    I've tried some web-based solutions for this, but none seem to work with a great degree of accurracy.

    Thanks in advance!


  • #4
    Figment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Figment


    I have never heard of one sorry.
    As far as i know the web based ones have a human at the other end who does the identifying.


  • #5
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,550 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Nah, I used an automated one, which identifed the characters in the gif/bmp and then tried to match them up mathematically...

    It correctly recognised all of the characters, but unfortunately didn't correctly recognise the font...


  • #6
    beaver
    Closed Accounts Posts: 512 ✭✭✭beaver


    http://www.whatthefont.com is pretty cool. I get good results with it a decent proportion of the time, but it's certainly not always perfect...


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