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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.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When I did design I used what the font to help identify unknown fonts.

[–] oeuf@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 month ago

I think this might a good use for AI.

[–] riskable@programming.dev -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Upload it to Gemini and ask it to identify the font. It's pretty good at that (even before 3.0 which is supposed to be better). I used it to identify the font used on some keycaps back when it was still on version 2.5 (which was basically the worst of all the AIs at the time).It might not have got it 100% correct but one of the fonts (of three) it suggested was close enough that I doubt laymen could tell the difference.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago

just to save time for OP: Gemini thinks it's Komika Text, which does look extremely close but slightly different to me.