From the course: Learning Typography for Video Editors

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Name that font

Name that font

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Name that font

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- [Instructor] So you might have found a piece of text that you find inspiring online, and you also might be watching a feature film where you just love the text treatment. You love the text design. And you wanna take that visual reference and find out what that type actually is. There are a number of online services that do this such as what the font allows you to upload an image and it will try to guess the type of font it is from your actual still. And there's also a lot of options within the Adobe ecosystem as well. I'm here in Photoshop. I've downloaded a photo that has numerous amounts of font, and I'm attracted to this font here at the very bottom. What I'm gonna do with my graphic selected here in the layers panel, and you have this file. It's called Name That Font. We're gonna go here into our type and choose to Match Font. What this does is it brings up a dialog box asking you to crop your image to the font that you want to match in question. So what I'm gonna do is…

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