A bit of fun for a chilly afternoon: The other day on the book arts list someone asked about identifying the title font in this image
Rather quickly, someone responded “WhatTheFont identifies this font as “Dexterous” which is a new design based on an “antique typeface” (unnamed). The lowercase r is somewhat different, but the other letters are very similar.”
So I found What the Font to check it out. I had to edit the image to capture just the title, change the contrast/brightness in order to make the letters darker, and rotate the line a bit to make it straight, like so:
Here’s the results
Along the side of the results were a list of “related tags” that seemed useful: Art Nouveau, sans-serif, French, soft, rounded, gothic, clean, American, retro, ornamental. And at the bottom, it said ” No good match? Submit your image to the WhatTheFont Forum to have your image viewed by font geeks the world over. Or try Identifont to identify your font by answering a series of questions about the letter shapes.
For more fun, I tried Identifont as well, but didn’t get very far because the questions assume you have the entire font (the first one asks about upper-case Q, second about $, third about upper-case M… none of which I have).
Here are links to Dexterous and Art Gothic URW, the first 2 fonts on the list above.