Becoming a Font Detective

Have you ever had a brochure printed for you by a printing company and then later needed to edit and re-order that same marketing piece? Only to find out that no one had the original document, artwork, etc.? Worse yet, no one can determine the font in the document to be edited and re-printed.

If this ever happens to you and you need to determine a font, I found an excellent resource at www.identifont.com. You have two choices. If you know the name of the font or part of the name you can type it into the search bar. What I had to do, though, was identify a typeface by answering a series of questions. With each answer it narrowed down the number of potential fonts until I could clearly identify the font in my document. It took a few minutes but it worked!

I was able to give that information to my current printer and he was able to re-create exactly what I needed. So if you ever run into a similar situation, give Identifont a try. It really works!