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

[sophie]

When I have an image of a font and need to know the name, the first place I go to is WhatTheFont, which lets you upload a sample image, identify which connected parts of the image (that it automatically identified) map to which letters, and get results. It's really quite handy!

Since it works only on connected parts of the image, the letter "i" is often detected as two separate characters - the dot and the tail. In that case I normally leave it blank for both, so that it doesn't give any false matches.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! That did come up with a good match for the font, unfortunately not a name I recognize and one to buy, so I assume I used some free/imitation version of the same kind, but maybe that'll help me find it again.