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Hey. Long time listener first time caller.

Can somebody point me to a way or tutorial how i am searching for more "exotic" fonts?

Example:


I tried cutting:



Then i cleaned up the background:



that came already close, but it wasn´t the right font..

Inverted the type:



-> a step back
So in the end i just looked up the .pdf and found the font:



so, how would be the best (or right) way, to handle fonts like that?

Thanks and looking forward to more interesting experiments with the Find my Font

Hi,
This image is both fascinating and quite challenging when it comes to font identification.

A key thing to remember is that the letter you choose for matching needs to be distinctive and should include all of the visual components that make the font unique. In this case, selecting just one letter is actually enough—any of them would work. I chose the first “U”, because its shape is very unusual and appears in only a handful of typefaces.

The real challenge was selecting all the parts of the character, including the fine shadow lines. At first, I tried selecting the primary glyph and then, while holding Shift, manually adding the shadow strokes. This was extremely tedious, and the tiniest mouse slip would accidentally grab a chunk of background—forcing me to clear everything and start over.


To make this easier, I used a smarter approach: the contrast tool.


I selected the first three letters and opened the deformation tool. Then I pushed the contrast all the way to the right. This thickened the shadow lines, and in some areas even connected them, which made the selection process much easier. After just a few clicks, most of the shadow was captured cleanly.

From there, I simply specified that the letter was “U”, clicked Match Fonts, and voilà—
the top result was Sunset Boulevard.

"Exotic" fonts have usually more distinct letters and are easier to match, but sometimes is a bit tricky to select the appropriate
letters.
I selected just the first letter of your image and as you can see the first match in the list is the correct font.

Some rules:

1. Try to select as many details as possible by adding parts of the letter one by one by Ctrl-click
2. There is no need to select ALL details, as long as you select some of
them at the letter image boundaries
3. Adding black background, inverting the image or selecting a much bigger image
of the original letter does not help at all, in fact it destroys the
matching accuracy of Find my Font

I hope that helps a bit!

Hey.

Thanks a lot - yes that helped and i could recreate it. What a great tool!

One little thing.. is there an "Undo" for the selecting process? (like
ctrl is plus and ctrl-shift is minus?) My two left hands with 5 thumbs
on each are terrible at pointing correctly and it took some time not to
select the whole background...

Hi,

Look at my answer for a way to select the shadow lines easier.