Font Identifier by WhatFontIs

Identify any Webfont or font (commercial or free) from any website.

What is Font Identifier by WhatFontIs?

Font Identifier by WhatFontIs is a useful tool for designers, helping to identify any webfont from various websites. Using the extensive database of WhatFontIs, with over 800K+ indexed fonts, users can discover both free and commercial fonts from almost any foundry. After the identification process, the extension also provides suggestions of over 60 fonts of similar style to the searched one.

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Extension stats

By: https://whatfontis.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.50 (28)

Version: 2.5.3 (Last updated: 2022-11-15)

Creation date: 2020-02-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
<all_urls>
storage
https://www.whatfontis.com/*

Size: 286.72K

Email: we*****@whatfontis.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 9271 ▼ 34

Other rankings

#704 in Developer Tools ▲ 1 #58 in custom font keyword 34 ▼ 4 #102 in font keyword 59 ▼ 7

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Font Identifier by WhatFontIs (v2.3)

1.40

(13) 6,201+

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Extension summary

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We help designers (famous or not) to identify any webfont or font from any website. We can do that using the huge WhatFontIs database: 800K+ fonts indexed, free or commercial from almost any foundry.

After identifying the font, the extension will suggest more than 60 fonts very similar in style to the one you are searching for.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works on images, offering an alternative to Font Face Ninja.
Suggests low-cost (or free) alternatives to expensive fonts.
Provides a large number of alternatives (up to 60) for identified fonts.
Correctly detects web fonts.

Cons

Often doesn't work or is glitchy, leading to a poor user experience.
Cumbersome process for identifying fonts from images.
Inconsistent functionality across different websites.
Many users found it unintuitive and time-consuming to use.

Most mentioned

Not working or doesn't work.
Love it! and good results.
More glitchy work than it's worth.
Requests for Safari compatibility.

Recent reviews

Not working

Kia Formentera, 2022-07-05

This extension doesn't work for me for text images in Chrome browser (which is why I wanted it). When I'm on a webpage, and click on the "image" icon in the extension, a whole new page opens up with a black background and a resizable box in which to place an image. It seems this should be an overlay on the current webpage I was on, but it's not. Opening a new blank webpage with a black background is useless as there is no way to capture the image from the page I was on. Please help or fix this. Thanks! :) Update: I figured out that the image "icon" in the extension window must be for taking a photo of some text (I had my laptop camera lens covered with black tape, thus the black screen), but this is only good with a phone, not if you are using a desk/laptop. For this application, you need to right click on a text image to get a drop-down option to use the extension on the image. I tried this extension on 2 text images. On one of them, I just got an error message saying it couldn't upload the image. On the other, it was very laggy and glitchy, and then cumbersome -- (it wanted me to invert the colors no matter which way I started), then I had to jump through hoops with many steps for the ID which was not at all intuitive and whose 1st results were SOO far off (no resemblance to the simple text font selected). (I chalked this failure up to my learning curve.) I tried again, and it asked to separate the letters w/red lines. The lines would not draw at all until after multiple (e.g. 10) attempts. After a lot of work and time, I finally got 3 font ID results that had different font names, but all looked exactly the same (essentially one choice that was close to the selected font, but not exact match, and no free ones). This had very mediocre results for me. :(:( This seems to be more glitchy work than it's worth, but I'll try it a couple more times before giving up. I hope it becomes useful. (Also, the extension won't open on some websites, so they must have some restrictions...?? On others sometimes I have to click the extension more than once for it to open. It's temperamental.)