a font question

[ratcreature]

I created an artwork last November, which is one in a series. It used a particular font, but I can't remember what that font was. Unfortunately that was created on my now dead, previous laptop. I now want to make a new artwork in the series and need to use the same font, but it apparently wasn't one of the standard fonts (though I'm sure it was a free font), because when I open the old XCF file, Gimp does not display the name of the font, but it is blank. Is there a way to get the name of the font I'm now missing from that old file so that I can download the font again?

Comments

[ratcreature]

I tried this, but it only lists the layers, what kind they are, their opacity and size, nothing about the fonts used.

[jana]

Sorry that I couldn't help. One would think that this kind of information also should be listed.

[ratcreature]

Yeah. I don't really understand why Gimp doesn't just give you some info box with "you are missing the font xy used in this image file", when it encounters such text layers in a file you want to work with, but are missing a font. That would certainly be more convenient than me having to mess around with font identification websites. *sporks the technology some*

On the bright side, I think I have found the font I was using in the font folder of my backup drive.