Fonts can make or break a reader’s reading experience. One of the places to find new fonts is PDF files. It can be a brochure, brochure, brochure, case study, or anything you can open on your computer. However, how do you identify the font in a PDF file in Windows 10 when you see and like a font?
There are several ways to remedy this situation. A friend of mine wasted an hour comparing a font he liked with the font drop-down inside Microsoft Word’s menu. I think there are better ways to identify fonts quickly and without spending too much time.
Let’s get started.
1. Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat is a household name when it comes to dealing with PDF files. It can do that and more, as you probably already know. You can open a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Reader and press Ctrl + D on your keyboard or click File to select Properties. You can also right-click anywhere on the PDF document to select the Properties option.
Under the Fonts tab you will find a list of all the fonts used in that PDF file.
You can also see the encoding details here if you click on the ‘+’ icon. That will expand the menu even further. There is more than one font used in the document, which is not unusual. Usually done to distinguish or emphasize points in a PDF.
If you want to select a paragraph or text string, and then define the font in the PDF, you will need Acrobat DC Pro, which is not free. If you own a copy, go to Tools > Content > Edit Document Text and select the text for which you want to define the font, then select Properties. Again, the process is pretty straightforward.
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2. Identify the font from the phrase
We found that identifying fonts in PDF files was easy. Identifying fonts from a phrase or word is also easy, as long as you own the professional version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don’t own it, download PDF-XChange Viewer. This is a free PDF reader that comes with some paid extras in other apps.
Download the app and open the PDF file containing your favorite font. Select the text with the Select tool (not the Hand tool). If you see a hand icon instead, right-click anywhere on the document to choose Select Tool.
Select the text and right click again to select the Text Properties option.
You can now view the font type and other encoding details in the Format tab.
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3. Identify fonts online
Downloading a separate PDF reader application to identify fonts is not necessarily a good idea. Why waste precious SSD space? I mean, it certainly serves the purpose, but there is another way to determine the font from a text string. Enter WhatTheFont.
Take a screenshot of the text containing your new favorite font and upload the image to the website below.
Once you’ve uploaded the image, you can further narrow down the phrase or word if you haven’t done so already. Click the blue arrow button to start the process when you’re done selecting.
You will now see a list of fonts to choose from. You can also enter your own text to see how it will look with the specified font type. It’s a fun way to experiment before you write another document. WhatTheFont is free to use as they make money selling defined font types.
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Fonts are forever
A bad font type can ruin the reader’s experience. Using an easy-to-read font is always safer than using something that may not appeal to many people. We know it from Comic Sans, the world’s most hated font. It was designed by a Microsoft employee. You then. It’s sad, because we all love the comic book font it was originally inspired by.
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