I've had LOTS of trouble with WTF. It seems it somehow does better with samples taken with the iPhone camera (iTouch user here) than with image files in the Photos folder. Perhaps because print examples are often done with far better resolution than the plain pixellation (YUCK) of wysiwyg display text and even anti-aliasing (sometimes YUCK).
I like Zara's answer. I would not say it's a bad tool, but it would never beat a panel of font folks such as at the forums, including this one. Eyes, and experience, will beat programming every time, when it comes to Font ID's.
17 Dec 2009 — 3:54pm
Smaragd, squooshed.
17 Dec 2009 — 6:45pm
Thanks, odd that wtf did not get it. Maybe cuz it was squooshed
17 Dec 2009 — 7:19pm
Or perhaps it is because WTF is a machine :P
18 Dec 2009 — 11:10am
I've had LOTS of trouble with WTF. It seems it somehow does better with samples taken with the iPhone camera (iTouch user here) than with image files in the Photos folder. Perhaps because print examples are often done with far better resolution than the plain pixellation (YUCK) of wysiwyg display text and even anti-aliasing (sometimes YUCK).
18 Dec 2009 — 4:36pm
I like Zara's answer. I would not say it's a bad tool, but it would never beat a panel of font folks such as at the forums, including this one. Eyes, and experience, will beat programming every time, when it comes to Font ID's.
- Mike Yanega