Great to see how Myfonts and Monotype is upping the game. Back in 2012-13, when the Myfonts web site and platform was getting overhauled, I approached a senior developer there with an idea of crowdsourced font discovery, and he gracefully provided me with the access to their API and entire font library. With that in hand, we have developed a small app called Fontli , where the idea was similar but not with such awesome machine language capabilities. You click a picture, post it to the public and they help you identify the font. A social network for type nerds built with the Myfonts database. It was a decent hit at the time, but unfortunately we could not figure out a good business modal and it just stayed as a pet project. This is the future, and congrats to the team behind this. Hope they will build more community featrures around this. There is a great scope for a dribbble like show and tell visual network around this platform. For those interested, Fonli is at www.fontli.com (not actively supported anymore)

Hell yes!

Love the naming and the tagline

It says all my photos are corrupted

Folks - you may also want to check out “Adobe Capture” - an iOS and Android app our teams made to identify / capture a font you like in the wild, (AND sync across Ps, Ai, etc...). It also does the same thing for colors, patterns, vector objects and brushes. Am surprised more folks don’t know about it.

This is true innovation! Superb!

Great! Always wanted such an app! Got it on my phone already and will try to identify some fonts!

Love the app. It'd be great if the picture taken to identify the fonts from the app can be automatically deleted after fetching the results.

Will be so glad if there is a bookmark button for fonts.

Pros:

Great UI, Easy to use & Very Fast.

Cons:

Some fonts are not identifying correctly, But still good at showing look-al-like ones.

If it really works as its described then this is the app of the month for me.

App crashes before recognising anything. Tried twice on an S8+ before uninstalling. Dogs balls.

I actually am having some bad problems with the app. It's not picking up about 2/3 of what fonts I give it. And they are very simple fonts. I would like to wait until they get it right after about a year.

Simple but awesome. Great job!

Awesome!

It's a good tool if you want to pay for your fonts, but doesn't really show you the free matches

Pros:

Good and accurate scan of photos

Cons:

Mostly tries to recommnd fonts that are on sale on myfonts.com, and doesn't always give you the free recommendations

Example; Printed out our company name in Gilbert Sans MT Condensed - an installed font for Windows since ..... App suggested Lomo Wall chart Std 52, which is nothing like.

Pros:

It's a great idea and simple to use

Cons:

Could not identify even Windows fonts correctly. Not even close.

Finally!

Wow, this is dope 😍

Oh my god. All my life THIS WAS WHAT I WANTED! Thank you! Trying it out.

Finally!!