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How can I identify a font that was used? [help] (quokk.au)

submitted 1 month ago by SatyrSack@quokk.au to c/gimp@lemmy.world

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Years back, I would make memes using a particular handwritten-looking font.

Example image with the font in question

While I do not have the font installed on my computer anymore, I do still have my GIMP project files. But when I open the file, I cannot tell what that font is. If I try to edit the text, its font changes to the default font. Is there a way that I can perhaps extract the font data from the *.xcf file or something? Really, all I need here is simply the name of this font.

I have tried using What the Font to identify it, but nothing looks exact. I had almost certainly originally downloaded the font file from DaFont, on either the Handwritten or Cartoon category, but I am not seeing a match on the first fifteen pages.

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[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try opening the .xcf in a text editor and searching for "font". This will take a long time to load for anything more than a very simple image.

I made a quick gimp project with Krupper as my font and then opened the xcf in text editor and this is what i found:

(font "GimpFont"  
    (fonthash "3f73e56f9b4eed8091b647543d766cfac650ff79cf05dcede9f4f25b0f3fdaec")  
    (fullname "Krupper (Plain):001.001")  
    (family "Krupper")  
    (style "(Plain)")  
    (psname "Krupper")  
    (index 0)  
    (weight 100)  
    (slant 0)  
    (width 100)  
    (fontversion 65536))  
(font-size 45)  
(font-size-unit pixels)  
(antialias yes)  
(language "en-us")  
(base-direction ltr)

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wonderful, thanks! The font is called "Handineat", which does sound familiar.

https://www.dafont.com/handineat.font

I had tried opening the XCF in VSCodium before making this post, but gave up immediately when I saw the "this is a binary file, dummy, not a text file" warning. I guess I should have just clicked the "I don't care, open it anyway" button, because when I did just now, there was a bunch of unintelligible nonsense inside, but still enough human-readable text to answer my question!

[–] teft@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Glad I could help.