What Users Really Think About WhatTheFont

Catastrophic OCR and character recognition that requires excessive manual correction, with results often completely wrong despite clear images

"Incredibly bad OCR means it can't distinguish letters easily. After a LOT of manual entry, it finally gets some letterforms identified, then fails at the font."

"I downloaded this app specifically to point out to friends how prevalent papyrus font is used for logos and on menus... It guessed about 20 different fonts, but couldn't tell that the font was actually papyrus"

I wanted this app to help with a MS PowerPoint presentation. I needed to find Microsoft font types that I could use in a presentation. The scanned font returned 80 random fonts, none of which were available in Microsoft. So unless there is a way to filter results and find font types that can actuall...

Gave a bunch of random fonts, couldn’t read the text I put in

The app updated a few months ago and now it doesn’t recognize any font I put in there. I have even tried basic fonts that should for sure be recognized.

Never once recognized a font automatically from a picture, never recognized a font after I selected the text. Might work well for plain no background b&w but didn’t have that need to try ever.

This use to be an important tool for me as a graphic designer tasked with recreating logos & artwork. But since I updated to the newest version, it hasn’t identified a single font for me yet.

This NEVER identifies the correct font.

Super slow, bad interface, and it doesn’t show accurate results.

After the most recent release, the ability to enter your own text to see the font matching results does not work once you type in several letters, it appears to be six, then you can’t see your text unless you go into every individual font to look at it, which defeats the purpose of having the summar...