Ever found yourself captivated by a beautiful font on a poster, banner, or graphic on social media and wondered, “What’s this font called?” You want to use it in your own design, but don’t even know where to start. At Sixtygram, we know that great fonts are at the heart of great design. That’s why today, we’re sharing an easy way to identify fonts from images—something you can do yourself in just a few clicks.
Simply upload an image, and the system will analyze it and tell you the font name instantly. Whether it’s a single font, a mix of styles, or multiple fonts in one image—no problem.
Ready? Let’s get started.
How to Identify Fonts from Images
1. Go to the MyFonts website to upload your image.
Start by visiting the MyFonts website at this link: https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont.
Once you’re on the page, you’ll see two options for uploading an image: 1) pasting the URL of an image stored online, or 2) uploading the image directly from your device. Both methods work, but if you already have the image saved on your device, it’s best to upload it directly. It’s more convenient and tends to produce more accurate font recognition results.
2. Select the text to process the font name
Once the image has been uploaded, the system will take you to a screen where you can select the area containing the text. You can either click directly on the text in the image or drag a box around the specific words you want. Then, click the “Identify font” button to let the system begin analyzing the font from the selected text.
3. View font name information from the image
Within a few seconds after processing, the system will display the font name that matches or closely resembles the one in the image. You’ll also see a real-time preview of the original image showing how it compares to fonts available in the system. Additionally, you can type your own text to test how it looks. If the font is licensed, the price and download options will appear on the side.
The working principle of identifying fonts from images
Identifying fonts from images is a process that combines artificial intelligence (AI) technology with image processing to allow the system to “read letters” from photos or graphics, and accurately compare them with font patterns stored in a large database.
The process begins with analyzing the uploaded image using a technique called Deep Learning, a form of Machine Learning that detects specific characteristics of each letter—such as strokes, curves, thickness, spacing, and overall structure. The system then compares these features with hundreds of thousands of fonts in its library to find the closest match.
In addition to analyzing individual letters, the system can also detect connected fonts written as whole words, or even distinguish multiple fonts within a single image. Users can select specific text areas, and the system will segment, analyze, and display matching fonts in real time.
Identifying Thai fonts from images
Although font identification from images is a convenient and time-saving tool for design, when it comes to Thai fonts, this remains a common limitation. Most popular font-finding tools available today—especially those on international platforms—are built primarily with English font databases in mind.
These font recognition systems use AI and Deep Learning to match font characteristics from images with their databases. While English fonts are widely available for the system to learn from, covering almost every style, Thai fonts are still underrepresented in those databases, resulting in inaccurate matches—or no match at all.
Furthermore, Thai fonts are inherently complex in design, with unique features such as loops, strokes, diacritics, and tonal marks. This makes it harder for systems that haven’t been specifically trained with Thai data sets to analyze them accurately.
So, if you really want to identify a Thai font from an image, you may need to use additional methods such as:
- Manual comparison using Thai font libraries from local websites, like collections of free Thai fonts
- Using descriptive keywords in a Google search to describe the font’s appearance
- Asking in Thai design communities, such as the Facebook group Font Community Thailand
Even though the technology isn’t yet perfect for Thai fonts, with the growth of the Thai language in the digital space, we’re likely to see more tools that support Thai fonts specifically in the near future.
