Adobe Font Finder

Feb 25

Tools & Tips

Fonts. What designer doesn’t have too many? And we are always on the hunt for more.

The internet is a goldmine for fonts, but it’s not always easy to find just the font you’re looking for. It’s always good to have another font tool in your arsenal, and with that in mind we’re giving you a heads up on the Adobe Font Finder.

Adobe’s Font Finder works in a similar fashion to many online font tools, but in this case it’s wrapped into a slick Flash presentation that works fast and looks sharp.

Enter a bit of text for the samples to display in, check a few of the many font options to narrow down your search — and voila!

The fonts I checked out from my initial review of the site all seemed to lead to paid fonts, and clicking on any of the search results will take you to Adobe’s online font store.

Of course, you may want/need to purchase on of these fonts, but it’s also easy enough to use the tool to get some inspiration, or even find a font you may already have buried in your own type collection already.

I’ve included some screenshots below to give you an idea of the range of font attributes you have the ability to search by. They are pretty extensive compared to many of the free font sites I’ve used, but then again they do want you to buy something from them.

Have a great font resource of your own? Please share it with us in the comments section below.

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  • I am really impressed by the tutorial. great efforts. thank you
  • GeorgeIbiza
    I decided to try this with 'Papyrus' font in mind.
    There doesn't seem to be an appropriate process of elimination to narrow the field of attributes.....i.e. Is the font tall or short, etc
    I typed Papyrus in keyword search and the result was zero.
    I love Adobe products, but this needs a rethink.
  • Thank you beatiful article.
  • Nice post, very useful link.

    I was still using whatthefont, but probably I'll switch to this one.
  • Thanks dude.. I used to make banners and cards so I often have need of different kind of fonts and have to do the annoying task of surfing the fonts or creating on my own. But by giving this resource hopefully you have saved my good amount of time and effort.. :)
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  • This looks fantastic. I'd always gone to 1001fonts.com to look for new fonts, but most of them are just slightly varied versions of standard fonts, or they're SO bizarre they're unusable. This tool seems much more, well, usable.
  • Good tool! Thanks
  • Great tool. Thanks for sharing it, cause I never heard of it before.
  • Very Useful information, this is both good reading for, have quite a few good key points, and I learn some new stuff from it too, thanks for sharing your information.
  • Excellent time saver, I love the sleek presentation and extremely fast results in comparison with other font finding tools.
  • Werd. Thanks for the shares!
  • amazing font finder... is it free ?
  • Useful tool thanks!!
  • marcel
    !!!!!!
    Amazing!
  • For ages I have meant to organise my fonts by style, but a new job always arrives and I put it on the back burner. I spend so much time trying to find that perfect elusive font that it leaves me with less time for the rest of the design.
  • For ages I have meant to organise my fonts by style, but a new job always arrives and I put it on the back burner. I spend so much time trying to find that perfect elusive font that it leaves me with less time for the rest of the design.
  • john5cole
    Wow....looks like it could be really useful. If not for purchasing fonts but finding fonts in a family that you like...thanks for the tip!
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