The Identifont web site is an online directory of typefaces, with main function a tool to help identify a font from a sample.

[3] It also allows potential purchasers to make comparisons of typeface specifications.

[5] The site was launched in 2000, and was designed by computer scientist David Johnson-Davies based on AI techniques.

[7] The site enables the user to identify typefaces by walking through a series of questions.

[8] The principle of identification is to use distinctive features of given letters, and the site returns the designer and manufacturer of the font, as well as the name.