I'm a programmer at heart. But in my 20s, I discovered there was a whole world of fonts beyond Courier.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I started building a system to explore and identify them.
What began as a personal project eventually grew into WhatFontIs.com, one of the world's leading font identification platforms.
Today, WhatFontIs helps nearly one million designers—from everyday creatives to some of the biggest names in the industry—find the fonts they're looking for.
We ran MyFonts’ ten best-selling fonts through WhatTheFont and WhatFontIs. WhatFontIs found all 10 in the top five; WhatTheFont missed 3, including Gotham and Phill.
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