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Ever need help identifying a font in a Photoshop file? In the past, you’d have to use some of the resources we listed in our Ultimate Guide to Identifying Fonts. Now, in addition to those tools, Photoshop itself can help you. If you’re using Photoshop CC 2017, all you have to do is open the image:
and choose Type > Match Font.
A dialog box will appear with instructions on how to tell Photoshop exactly which line of type contains the font you want to identify.
Then just click Match Font.
A list of likely suspects is created from the fonts on your machine, as well as ones available from Typekit (if you choose that option).
If the font is on your machine, clicking it in the list makes it the active font in Photoshop, so you can start using it right away.
This article was last modified on February 3, 2017
This article was first published on February 3, 2017
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