How to identify fonts in PDF files

Did you know Comic Sans is the most hated font in the world designed by a Microsoft employee? Fonts play an important role in everyone's reading experience. One of the places to find new fonts is a PDF file. But how to determine the font in the PDF file? There are several ways to identify fonts on a PDF file and here is how to do it.

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1. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader

1. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows

Adobe Acrobat is the popular application when it comes to handling PDF files. You can open the PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Reader and press Ctrl + D or click File to select Properties . You can also right-click anywhere on the PDF document to select the Properties option.

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In the Fonts tab, you will see all the fonts used in the PDF file.

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You can also check the encoding information here if you click the plus icon to expand the menu. There are many fonts used in this document and not popular. These fonts are used to distinguish or emphasize points in a PDF file.

If you want to find the font in a paragraph or text string, you need to use Acrobat DC Pro software and it's not free. If this software is available, go to Tools> Content> Edit Document Text and select the text you want to define the font for and then select Properties .

2. Identify the font from the phrase

Determining the font in a PDF file is easy. Identifying fonts from phrases or words is equally easy with the Pro version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Without this software, you can use PDF-XChange Viewer instead. This is a free PDF reader that has some paid features from other software.

1. Download PDF-XChange Viewer for Windows

Download the application and open the PDF file containing the font you like. Select the text using the Select tool (not the Hand tool). If you see a hand icon, right-click anywhere on the document to select the Select Tool .

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Select the text and right click again to select the Text Properties option.

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You can now see the font type and other encoding information in the Formatting tab.

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3. Identify fonts online

Downloading a separate PDF reader app just to determine the font is not a good idea. Why waste valuable SSD space that could be used for other purposes? Another way to identify fonts from text strings is to use the WhatTheFont website.

1. Recognize fonts used in Chrome with WhatFont

 https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ 

Take a screenshot of the text containing your preferred font and upload it to the web.

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When uploading photos, you can remove phrases or words if you like. Click on the green arrow to start identifying fonts when the selection is complete.

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You will see a list of the fonts used in the text and also enter text to see what the specified font type looks like. This is a great way to preview before writing into another document. WhatTheFont is free because they make money by selling defined font types.

Bad fonts can ruin the reader's experience. Using an easy-to-read font is always a safer way. Hopefully this way you will find your favorite font.

I wish you successful implementation!