Chrome Exten­sions to Iden­ti­fy Fonts

Due to strikingly similar characteristics in the myriad fonts out there, it’s often impossible to distinguish between typefaces. And that’s why a Chrome extension that helps you identify fonts is so essential. A font identifying extension can serve to be useful in several situations.

WHATFONT

With over one million downloads on the Chrome Web Store, you just can’t go wrong with WhatFont. The extension does what it does best, which is to identify fonts quickly and efficiently.

Just click on the WhatFont extension icon, and point the cursor at a word. you will immediately see the name of the font appear underneath. It’s super-fast at that. Just drag the cursor around a web page to quickly identify as many fonts as you want.

You must click on the letter to gain more details about the font. That will bring up a nifty info box filled with details such as the font family, size, weight, etc. It tells you more about the color of the font. Also, it generates a font preview of the alphabet using both uppercase and lowercase characters.

And to wrap things up, it will throw out a download link to the font (if freely available) for good measure. Superb.

FONTFACE NINJA

Fontface Ninja is another extension that you can use to identify fonts easily, and one that offers a whole lot more value compared to WhatFont. Click on the Fontface Ninja extension icon, and it will generate a list of all the fonts within a page. Quite useful when it comes to knowing all the details at a glance.

FONT FINDER

Font Finder lets you easily identify any font that you come across. Click on any letter or word after activating the extension, and you will be presented with a detailed pop-up box with just about everything that you would want to know. But it’s something more suited for power users and web developers. For the regular Chrome user, the amount of information that it throws out can be overkill.