MyFonts is a very handy service to find fonts, identify unknown fonts and to buy fonts. There is choice of more than 56,000 fonts.

If you need to use certain font seen in publications or ad campaigns, but you didn’t know its name, you can identify unknown font with MyFonts recognition system. You can also submit image of your font to Forum where experienced font enthusiasts will help you out.

As written in MyFonts tips, for better results you should upload to service scanned characters in file format Tiff, in Grayscale mode, with resolution 300 dpi.  Ideal maximal size of file containing NO descenders: 120 pixels x 1666 pixels, ideal maximal size of file containing descenders: 160 pixels x 1250 pixels. The ideal letter height for the best search result is about 100 pixels. Try to get the text horizontal and make sure letters are not touching. Max components (characters): 25. If you are identifying a font that is very similar to others: use as many characters as possible, use characters that are unique to this font, If possible, space the characters apart more than normal.

Besides identifying fonts you can also check out top 50 of best selling fonts, have a look at latest fonts additions, browse fonts by categories based on specific typeface design and choose from modern, script, funny or computer related fonts. There is alphabetical font search as well by the first letter of their names. Besides English MyFonts search system helps you find fonts for other languages. There are Unicode, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean and many other fonts.

One of the most interesting features of MyFonts is browsing fonts by tags. Most popular tags are decorative, elegant, funny, handwriting, headline, informal. There are in addition such exciting categories as masculine and feminine, 1970s, 1980s , 3d, wedding, xmas, nightclub.

You can find helpful advices on using, installing and embedding fonts in help section of Myfonts.