How to Identify Any Font You See on a Website or Image

You are browsing a website and see a typeface that is exactly right for your project. Clean, distinctive, professional. You inspect the element in DevTools and find font-family: "GT Walsheim Pro", sans-serif . Great -- except that font costs $400 for a commercial license. Or the font name leads to a dead end because it was loaded from a private CDN with an obfuscated filename. Identifying fonts is a problem every designer and developer hits regularly, and the approaches range from trivially easy to surprisingly difficult depending on the context. Identifying web fonts The easiest scenario is a live website where the font is loaded via CSS. Open your browser's DevTools, select the text element, and look at the Computed tab. The font-family property tells you the requested font, and the "Rendered Fonts" section in Chrome tells you which font is actually being used (important when the primary font fails to load and falls back). For deeper inspection: Open the Network tab, filter by "Font"