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Upload a screenshot or a photo, and typeye detects the font in the image: one best match with a confidence score, the four runners-up, and — under every result — the closest open-source family you can license and ship today. All of it runs on your device; the image never leaves your browser.
The detector compares the letterforms in your picture against 2,004 open-source families, entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded — no queue, no privacy trade-off.
Crop to a single line if you can. The cleaner the sample — flat lighting, sharp edges — the sharper the detection.
The engine measures stroke, contrast, axis and spacing, then scores every family in the catalog. Two thousand comparisons finish in seconds because they run on your machine, not a server.
You get the top detection with a confidence score plus the next four candidates. A detector that only ever answers with one name is guessing; typeye shows its uncertainty.
Under every result, typeye names the closest open-source family and its licence, so the detection turns into a font you can actually use.
Detected letterforms that look like a famous commercial font? That is expected — see 05 below for the free, licensed answer.
The numbers below are measured, not promised. They tell you when to trust a detection and when to reframe the shot.
Top detection 73%, top-5 93% on rendered text. Clean pixels make reliable detections.
Top-1 drops to 26% on camera shots. Reframe the word with the most distinctive letters and re-run — re-ranking lifts it to 44%.
Helvetica, Gotham or Futura are not in the catalog. The detector returns the closest open-source relative instead — by design, and it says so.
Every score is reproducible — the benchmarks come from the shipped engine, not a marketing deck.
Measured on the shipped engine — keep this table honest when the engine changes.
If your question is “what font is in this image?”, this page answers it directly. The other names for the task lead to the same tool from a different angle:
A detection only matters if you can act on it. When the matched family is open source, you can download, embed and ship it — commercially — with no licence negotiation.
When the letterforms point at a commercial face the catalog cannot name, the closest open-source relative is the practical answer: visually close, properly licensed, available now. If brand accuracy is critical, confirm the identification with the foundry.
Every result panel names the licence up front, so the detection and the decision happen on the same screen.
A font detector reads the letterforms in an image and compares them against a reference catalog. typeye converts your crop into a representation the matcher can score, ranks 2,004 open-source families on your device, and returns the best match with a confidence score plus runners-up.
Yes, with caveats. Rendered text detects with 73% top-1 accuracy; camera shots drop to 26% because of lighting and perspective. Framing a single word with distinctive letters and re-running the ranking lifts results to 44%.
No — commercial families cannot be redistributed for on-device matching, so they are not in the catalog. The detector returns the closest open-source relative instead, and every result names its licence so you can ship it immediately.
Yes. Detection is free and unlimited with no account. Paid plans add batch recognition and ticket support; detection itself is never metered.
No. The image is read in your browser and never uploaded. The engine and catalog cache after one small download. Re-ranking may fetch candidate font files from Google Fonts, but only family names are sent.
They are the same engine with different intents. If you want a quick single answer for one image, this detector page is it. If you want ranked candidates and alternatives for design work, use the font finder by image guide.
Free, no account. Your image stays in the browser.