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Find the font

Find the font

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Find the font

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- [Narrator] Hi and welcome to Design Tools Weekly with me, Tony Harmer. And this week, we're going to look at the problem of finding a font that you don't have. And this one is actually based on a real world scenario, I was asked to recreate somebody's business card. And all they had was a photograph of the last run of cards. So I brought into Photoshop, removed the information that we don't need. And I've also up sampled it slightly, because it's got good, crisp edges. The automatic up sampling algorithm works pretty well for that. And then I'm going to try and match this. So I'm going to go ahead and go to my Type menu and come down and choose match fonts. And you can select up to three lines, which is kind of handy, because that's exactly what I've got here for the first search that I'm going to do. And you can see it's quite dynamic, it's working along with me as I go. Okay, so it's coming up with a few things just…

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