Now open that font in a new tab to download it. We need to match the file name with the font name noted earlier. Now open up the Inspector tool (I’m using Google Chrome), head to the Application Tab and scroll to the Frames section and open up Fonts.
There are several ways to do this but I start by noting the current font name. We start the salvage mission by actually downloading the font. Uncover Renamed Fonts (advanced method)Īn obstacle we can face is when a font family isn’t clearly named, naturally throw off font inspection tools and methods. The font-family section will present the font info within the style attributes. Open up the details sidebar if it’s closed and select the Styles – Computed option. Now right click the text, select Inspect Element. If you are using Safari, make sure the Developer menu is visible by checking the box at the bottom of the Advanced tab of Safari preferences. Their inspector pops up, now head to the convenient Fonts tab for the info you need. If you are using Firefox, right click the text, select Inspect Element. DevTools pops up, make sure you are on the Styles tab and head to the Font-Family attributes to learn more about the fonts. If you are using Google Chrome, right click on the mystery text, select Inspect.
#FIND MY FONT BY NAME CODE#
So if you’re trying to avoid installing dozens of browser extensions, we can find more about the fonts used through a good old code inspection: You are now presented with the font families used with an additional breakdown of all the typography within the webpage. You simply click the Visual Inspector icon in the Chrome menu to activate the tool, then head over to the Typography section in the dropdown. Visual Inspector Chrome Extension offers a bit more depth than the above two. Now you can select multiple parts of text allowing a better visualization of the font breakdown vs Fontanello. To activate the tool you must click the What Font icon in the browser menu. WhatFont Chrome and Safari Extension is my favorite option when it comes to font discovery. You simply right click on the text, find Fontanello in the menu and pow there is the font family and some additional attributes. Fontanello (Chrome, Firefox, Edge + iOS)įontanello Chrome, Firefox, Edge and iOS Extension, in my opinion, is the quickest way to find out what font a webpage is using. The following site is a SharePoint site in one of my Microsoft 365 tenants, and I know I am on macOS.1. font-family: "Segoe UI", "Comic Sans MS", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Roboto", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif Because of its unique design characteristics and its universal availability, you can always inject “Comic Sans MS” into the font family, and visually identify where it applies. Thanks to Comic sans this made debugging of font loading easy. font-family: "Font 1", "Comic Sans MS", "Font 2" So the “debug font family” then looks something like this.
One trick I used in the past to make sure a font gets rendered correctly was to add a font that doesn’t look similar to the others. In general fallback fonts looks similar so most user or developer might not be able to see and the difference between correct and failing font. This approach also makes it sometimes hard to debug. This approach is an excellent fallback mechanism of the web, making sure that the Browser at least renders a similar font if the perfect font is unavailable.
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