Rediscovering a missing font

XiRoCCo · Post by **XiRoCCo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:42 pm

I made a nice little Christmas video. I created titles using a specific font. Recently I had to reload my computer. Now when I edit the video the titles default to my system fonts as I have not reloaded the font originally used.

How can I discover what font I used in the original so I can reinstall it back onto my system (no, I don't remember)? I have literally thousands of fonts stored on my system (not installed) and I only install those I need.

Thanks,
--Kevin

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:46 pm

Kevin,

Try creating an image of your text with that font. Then go here: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/, upload your image and it may be able to tell you what font you used..

About.com also lists several resources for this..http://desktoppub.about.com/od/identify ... a_Font.htm

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:53 pm

There's also a ton of fonts here (don't let the name fool you): http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/index.htm

XiRoCCo · Post by **XiRoCCo** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:56 pm

good thinking - thanks!

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:11 am

I have a free font-viewing utility on my home computer. I think its The AMP Font Viewer.

It will show you all of your installed fonts, or all of the fonts in a particular folder.

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:33 am

That is a pretty cool utility Doug. I used to have it, probably still do an a disc somewhere..

Well I wasn't going to say the name, thinking competition, but it no longer is... Corel Draw Graphics Suite has a built in utility called Bitstream Font Navigator, that does the same thing as Amp...

XiRoCCo · Post by **XiRoCCo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:45 am

DVDDoug wrote:I have a free font-viewing utility on my home computer. I think its The AMP Font Viewer.

It will show you all of your installed fonts, or all of the fonts in a particular folder.

I use a program called Font Xplorer for the same function. Reading your post it JUST dawned on me that Font Xplorer allows you to load numerous fonts for the current Windows session, then unloads them upon reboot (it loads as apposed to installing them). I'll load 'em all - open the video - confirm the font - then reboot. This should be interesting

Post by **Ken Berry** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:21 am

That capability sounded really interesting. But when I went to the Font Xplorer site, it is not mentioned as a feature. Are you sure it can do a temporary load of fonts and then automatically unload them on rebooting?

XiRoCCo · Post by **XiRoCCo** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:38 am

Hi Ken,

Yes - to make sure I just tested it by 'loading' a few fonts, opening Word and using the fonts, then rebooting. Opened Word after rebooting and the fonts are no longer there. While I've used this a few times, I'd recommend you test it on your system to make sure it behaves the same as it does for me. All in all - nice feature. There's another program I used to have that did this too - Font Browser.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:42 am

Very useful and it was better than the one I had installed up until a few minutes ago when I replaced it with this one.

jblank37 · Post by **jblank37** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:55 pm

Steve, just which one did you install. I went to filexplorer.com and it looks like it is only available for the MAC.

Thanks.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:57 pm

Hi Kevin

Can you e-mail the vsp that contains the titles.

I will have a look and see if i can identify the font.

Trevor

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:54 pm

The link I clicked was this one
http://www.ampsoft.net/files/FontViewerSetup.exe

I am running Windows XP Pro and it installed without a problem.

jblank37 · Post by **jblank37** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:18 am

Thanks Steve, works great with XP Home Edition also.