WhatTheFont Reviews

Works fine if you’re looking for a simple font that comes installed on basically every single device ever made. Does not work like the “magical” font finder it claims to be. I have looked for several different fonts with no results. It just “searches” forever. I’ve deleted and redownloaded several times to see if it was just a bug but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It’s faster to scroll through every font.

This WTFont used to be super finicky, but at least I could get it to work (when I first read about it more than a year ago), now it gives no errors if it can’t find something, it just searches forever - I was in the middle of some design work and let it go for a half hour last night (just to see...)

Cropping/selecting the text seems unnecessarily weird considering how many native language API’s have this built in - image constantly re-sizes, re-centers, and re-sizes the crop/selection box in a way that doesn’t seem to have ANY correlation to what I’m doing to it, if you have text near the edge of the image, don’t even bother. I’ll get the selection box just right with my fingers, let go, and it snaps to something completely different, and drops (at best) the character at the end of the string I was trying to select.

Take aways:
-Fix text selector
-Maybe a better loading modal
-Give errors on timeout or empty result set

One thing I'm never going to be able to understand is how an app can work almost flawlessly and all of the sudden after an update (updates only purpose is to make things better) WhatTheFont stops working. Maybe the auto selection sounded like a good thing to add, but it is really a nightmare, where before I was able to draw a box where the font was located in the picture, no worries I have to go through deleting endlessly boxes that show out of nowhere without even the possibility to get rid of the auto selection option.

The fonts identified often look quite close to your source image, but it overlooks commonly available font matches in favor of ones you’d have to buy from a developer.

Case in point: I couldn’t remember which font I’d used for a particular project from several years ago, but knew it was on my system. WhatTheFont gave me a dozen close matches I’d never heard of and didn’t have. I finally tracked down an old electronic file, which showed me I’d used Haettenschweiler. It’s available on most Windows machines, but was nowhere on the list WhatTheFont gave me.

It earns a second star for a clean interface, as well as for actually finding some close matches, but no higher because I suspect the developers are purposely skipping over commonly available fonts due to some kind of licensing agreement with font merchants.

What The Font is an intriguing concept for those who are interested or have a passion for font design but the overall execution seems to be lacking for me. While WhatTheFont is simple in design and easy to use I feel it needs to be much more from an educational viewpoint. I would like it if WhatTheFont had a database of the most common or popular fonts and how/where they are most likely to be used. Rather than just relying on WhatTheFont as a snap and analyze tool it could be used as a reference guide as well.

Perfect for when I see a font on TV that I like. I use the website all the time at work, just wish I could save fonts. I’m not trying to download them onto my phone, so being able to save fonts for later to download when I get to my computer would be a rad addition.

This is a tremendous help to me as a designer. I’m always surprised at its accuracy even in finding obscure fonts. The few fonts it doesn’t identify exactly, at least comes up with very close, similar matches. Thanks for a wonderful and helpful app!

As a type designer, I love WhatTheFont. It’s not so great at determining the exact right typeface every time, but it gets pretty darn close. I really wish that they could add a “my fonts” tab or something so that I could save certain fonts that I have found. It would be great for reference. Great app!!

WhatTheFont is extremely useful however there’s only one thing missing which is the ability to save (or bookmark) the fonts. If this feature happens to be added in the near future, I will happily re-rate this application to reflect a five star rating!

A lot of font options are not ones I have downloaded already and have to purchase. BUT it has been a huge time saver in helping me find ones that I already have as options!!!!

WhatTheFont is infinitely better since their fall 2017 update! Some things are still a little finicky, such as trying to draw the boxes around the text you want to identify. But boy am I glad we got this update! Much more useful and effective now.

(Original Review Below)
I love What The Font... on desktop. Seriously: do not bothering trying the iOS version. It is barely functional, and it seems that the developers forgot about it years ago anyway.

What the Font is simply perfect. It is so intuitive, so easy to use, and so flexible it has saved me countless hours!

I am constantly amazed at how quickly I’m able to help clients recreate logos when they didn’t have the original in a decent resolution.

If only every app could live up to its promises as well as What The Font!

I’ve been using WhatTheFont for several months and WhatTheFont is useful!

The chances of getting the exact same font is about 80-90%. Lower quality photos might impact your experience.

The average rating is a 2.6, but I think it is a great app for me!

Yes!!! My dreams have come true! I've been waiting 6 WHOLE YEARS for an update. Now then, I've still regularly used the old version, mind you...except now I don't have to shamefully hide my screen due to legacy-app-embarrassment syndrome. Seeeriously excited to finally have this fonting update.

Love the site and using WhatTheFont for the first time I'm in love with it. Point and snap a picture is fobts and boom!!!! All kind of font names of the font pop up. Even with obstacles in the artwork it still finds the font. Love it!! Good job everyone that worked on WhatTheFont! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊😊😊😍😍😍

As a font geek, WhatTheFont has been great for me. It correctly identifies the font among reputable and popular fonts and not just among a limited database with “similar” or “copies” of fonts, as other apps do.

The only feature I would like added is the ability to save fonts to favorites or something, just like in Shazam, so I don’t have to remember the name of every font that once drew my attention.

When I first got WhatTheFont, I thought the 1k+ of five star reviews were fake. NOPE. When you open WhatTheFont , you can chose to get a tutorial or just wing it. The starter pack animations are GREAT, despite the fact that they may be considered “un-original.” You can buy more animation packs (with real money), but they are very cheap! They get down to $0.99, and the average is only $2.99-$3.99. Not bad! There are also plenty of FREE packs. I definitely recommend.

(My one issue is whenever I try and get a free animation pack, it says “Store Notice: Store unavailable - user is not authorized to make payments.” I can’t figure out how to get a free pack!)

Over the past 40 years I’ve and have been in the graphic design field on two continents and had to lean on my visual recognition skills to identify font faces. No more, thanks to What The Font.

WhatTheFont is overall a marvelous one, let’s you take a picture of a font OR import a picture from your photos that has a font on it, recognizes the font in a few seconds & gives you a bunch of results.
something that could help WhatTheFont would be adding history of the previous fonts recognized.
I recommend WhatTheFont for the designers or anyone in fact, to know a font’s name in just a few taps & a few seconds!

I first got WhatTheFont and I was frustrated because it seemed it couldn’t even identify the simplest of fonts.

I finally tried it after the update and it’s done SO WELL. It also shows you a ton of similar fonts, some I end up liking even more than the one I originally tried to identify, lol. Thanks for WhatTheFont ☻

It would be nice if there were more options like adding additional font websites to search (sometimes the font pool it searches seems limited) or the ability to keep it from saving the photos it takes (this is just annoying). It’s a useful tool that can save a lot of time.

WhatTheFont is amazing. I’m nine years old and I’m a big reader, and this might sound crazy but sometimes I seriously want to know the font of one of the books. I’m a writer, too, and I usually type my stories. It’s very useful to be able to know the names of the fonts I like. The ONLY two bad things about WhatTheFont—and some might not even consider them BAD bad—is the fact that I can’t bookmark any fonts and you have to buy the ones you like. But get WhatTheFont now, I’m serious!!!

I found WhatTheFont very useful. It's not perfect but it does a pretty good job or at least it used to! Now it just doesn't work at all - like several other reviewers are disappointed that it has ceased to function it simply says it can't reach the server. End of... I miss it. Please fix it!!!