Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to go over how to use
Adobe Capture, which is a free app that you can download on your phone to identify fonts. Adobe
Capture also does a bunch of other cool stuff, but in this video, we're going to focus on how
to use it to identify a font that you see out in the world somewhere. All right, let's get started.
Ok, so first, I'm going to go to Adobe Capture. Now in Adobe Capture, we have materials, we've got
type, shapes, and a couple other things, but we're going to use type in this tutorial. When you click
on Type, it'll automatically start searching the viewing area for type. And once it finds it,
it does this little highlight thing, and then I'll click on the little check mark at the bottom.
And when I do that, it gives us a few options
for what font that might be. And I'm thinking it's really similar to this second one. So I'm going to
select that one, and click Change Text. We can actually enter our own text up at the very top,
but I've already entered text, so I'm going to click Bigshot, and this gives us an even easier
way to compare the two. So this one is looking great. I'm going to select that and then save.
And I'll choose My Library. And just click that and Save. Ok, so the next thing I want to try
is a book. And I want to go for this text right here. Now my finger's in the way,
so I'm going to redo that. This element tax is the one I want. So I'm going to select that,
and then hit the checkmark at the bottom. And it comes up with Alternate Gothic No 3,
which looks pretty good to me. So I'm going to save that, choose My Library,
and Save. And now the last thing I want to try is a piece of mail that I got the other day. I want
this upgrade text. It automatically selects it, and I choose which one I want, and then hit the
checkmark at the bottom. And that looks pretty good. Let's take a look at some of the others.
That first one really looks nice. So I'm going to save. I'll choose My Library, and Save.
Now let's head over to Illustrator. I'm going to open up my library...Window>Libraries. And I saved
these in My Library, so I'll just click that. Now I'm going to hit T to type, just HELLO. I'll get
back on my Selection tool and hold SHIFT and grab a corner and just make this a little bit bigger.
Then I'm going to start dragging and hold SHIFT and OPT or SHIFT and ALT on a Windows machine
to make a copy. And I'll hit CMD D or CTRL D to make another copy the same distance away.
Ok, so I'm going to click on this first one. And I'm going to go to the library I saved them in,
you can see them right down here. So I'm going to click on Type one.
And it automatically will change that to the font we saw from Adobe Capture. Here's
that second type. And here's the third. I'll make these a little bit bigger. And I'm going
to change the case of these two. So I'll go to Type>Change Case to >Title Case. And I actually
took photos of the three so we can compare them here. So I'm going to paste those in now.
And I'm just going to change the words to match the words from the pictures. So I think that this
one is exactly the same font. And this one also looks to be exactly the same font, but
we can see that the B is a little different here. So this one didn't get the exact font, but it's
very, very close. So when Adobe Capture identifies fonts, it's using Typekit or actually Adobe Fonts,
I think it's what it's called these days. But it's a huge library of fonts that Adobe can compare
what it sees in Adobe Capture, and try to match them. And usually it works really well.
Now if it's not working for you and you're just not able to find the font,
I actually have another font video that talks about a few other ways that you can
try to identify the fonts you see, and that'll be right up in the corner of your screen right
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