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

[melannen]

I don't know if it can be retrieved from the .xcf file, but when I've had that problem in the past, a few times I've managed to find the name using identifont.

[ratcreature]

I'm afraid I don't have all letters in the previous artwork. I probably still have my old font folder backed up somewhere (unfortunately well organized backups of all files are not my strong suit), and could just reinstall the bunch of fonts I'm still missing. I just feel GIMP ought to be able to tell which font it still needs. I mean, clearly the info is somewhere available to the program or it couldn't match the name to the font if it is installed.

[sophie]

You actually don't need all the letters; you can use http://www.identifont.com/sample.html to say that you only have a limited set of letters.