AFAIK it's the best of its sort, but I've used it a few times (not for a few years though) and I don't think I've ever found the actual font. Though of course it finds similar fonts which sometimes can be enough.
They were down for a while so I don't know if that community re-formed or not.
I did, sometimes. When it works, it works great, but often it doesn't. There are also Matcherator[1] and What Font is[2], but they are not better or worse in my admittedly limited experience.
True.
But I guess we have to accept that fact that the app will only ID fonts that are in it's (premium paid) DB.
I always dreamed about an alternative that does the same visual identification but matches closest-fit to a database of free opensource fonts.
That would be awesome because fonts can get expensive, especially for websites and pay-per-traffic pricing!
I was wondering if that is what inspired this thread, the threat of Adobe.
Personally, I don't use the mobile app and my use case is only on the desktop, so I hope they roll their update out for the desktop soon.
I still occasionally use it when I’m totally stuck but have had pretty crappy luck with getting an exact match.
What it’s been pretty good for is getting me close enough to look for other things that look similar to it’s suggestions and branching out from there.
But a tweet to Postman reveals they use Cuisine, which is a very pretty font.