Copying a font

[BryzzosIntern]

If I upload a picture with a logo, is there a way to copy the font from the logo, so I can then use that font to type new words?

[MEB]

Hi BryzzosIntern,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

No, you cannot "extract" a font from an image containing a few words using that font. What you can do is upload it (crop just the letters from the image) to a service like WhatTheFont from MyFonts so it can identify what font was used, then download the font (in case its free) or buy it from a digital font shop so you can use it to write whatever you need with it.

 

If instead of an image, you have the logo on a PDF format/document (or other vector format) you may be able to edit the text directly if the font (or subset) was embedded in the PDF (Affinity apps currently don't support embedded fonts so you will have to use a third party software for this) or at least extract the letters as shapes (paths) to compose manually new words if the letters you need are all available in the document and you do not need to use many letters (note this may not be legal).

[v_kyr]

Another alternative such service is WhatFontIs.

[MikeW]

Or, upload it here if either of those services cannot find a match.

 

Ya just never know...

[Alfred]

a service like WhatTheFont from MyFonts

 

 

Another alternative such service is WhatFontIs.

 

Yet another alternative is the Font Squirrel Matcherator, or the Fontspring Matcherator which powers it. You can even crop the image to help it find a good match; WhatFontIs goes one better, allowing you to use the extensive set of tools in the pixlr Online Photo Editor to tweak the image.

[peter]

Or failing that...take a deep breath and use the font that is most similar. The convert that font to curves and painstaking tweek those nodes on those individual letters, until they look the same.

 

HTH