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Make a font from an image
Upload any picture with lettering — a logo, a poster, a screenshot, a photo of a shop sign — and this free image to font generator draws a complete typeface in that visual style: full character sets, up to three weights, real TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 files. It works online in the browser and creates a new font from the picture rather than looking one up, so it still works when the original is custom lettering that exists nowhere as a font. Add a text prompt to steer the result, then refine any glyph in the Studio.
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How it works
A vibe, a brief or a reference image — plain language is enough.
The full character set is drawn and assembled into a working font in about a minute.
Tune any glyph in the Studio, then download TTF/OTF/WOFF/WOFF2 or embed from the CDN.
Frequently asked questions
How does image-to-font work?
Attach a reference image in the generator (optionally with a text prompt), select languages and weights, and YoFont draws a full character set matching the image’s style, assembled into installable font files.
Can I make a font from my logo?
Yes — upload the logo as the reference image and YoFont extrapolates its letterforms into a complete typeface, so your whole brand can type in the logo’s style.
Can I find out the name of the font in my image here?
No — this page builds a new font in that style. If you only need the name, use the font finder: it reads the letterforms in your picture and names the closest real fonts. Come back here when the exact font turns out to be unavailable or custom.
Can I make a font from a PNG, JPG or SVG?
Yes — PNG, JPG and WEBP go straight in, and vector lettering works too: export it as a flat picture and upload that. What comes back is a real font file, so image to TTF, PNG to font and SVG to font all end at the same place: installable TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2.
Is the image to font generator free?
The first font is free and needs no card. It is a full font, not a watermarked sample: install it and use it. After that you either buy glyphs as you go or take a plan — and a commercial licence if the font goes into paid work.
Which file formats do I get?
Every font exports as TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2, plus CDN-hosted @font-face URLs for web embedding.
How to make a font from an image, step by step
You have a picture with lettering you want to keep using — a logo you own, a poster you designed, a sign you photographed on holiday. The letters exist, but only as pixels: you cannot type with them. Turning that image into a font takes four steps, and none of them require type-design software.
- Pick the cleanest picture you have. Letters should be sharp, roughly horizontal and big enough to see their edges. Two or three words in a distinctive style beat a whole paragraph of blurry small text — the style is what gets extended, not the wording.
- Upload it and describe what you want, if you want. The picture alone is enough. A short text prompt on top of it steers the result: say “heavier”, “rounder corners”, “condensed” and the draft moves that way. Choose the languages you need and up to three weights.
- Check the draft where it matters. Look at the letters your picture never contained. If the sample said “SUMMER SALE”, the model still had to invent a g, a q and an ampersand from the logic of the style. That is where a font from an image is made or broken.
- Fix anything you disagree with, then export. Any single glyph can be redrawn or regenerated on its own, without touching the rest. What you download are ordinary font files — TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 — that install like any font you have ever bought.
Which images work, and which ones will disappoint you
The result depends far more on the source than on any setting. Here is what actually comes out of the usual kinds of pictures people upload.
- A logo or wordmark — the best case. Custom lettering, deliberately drawn, high contrast, few distractions. This is exactly the situation where no existing font will ever match and generating one is the only honest answer.
- A poster or album cover — very good, provided you crop to the headline. Leave the body text out; mixing two typefaces in one reference gives you a font that is neither.
- A photo of a shop sign or a wall — good, if you shoot straight on. A steep angle stretches the letters, and the font inherits that distortion. Step back and zoom rather than tilting the camera.
- A screenshot — good, and often better than a photo, because the pixels are clean. Take it at the largest size the screen will show.
- A tiny, compressed thumbnail — this is the one that disappoints. If you cannot see where a stroke thickens and thins, neither can anything else. Find a bigger version of the same picture first; it is worth the five minutes.
PNG, JPG, SVG — what to upload and what comes back
PNG, JPG and WEBP upload directly, and PNG is the safest of the three because it has no compression artefacts around the edges of letters — exactly the places that carry the style. If your lettering lives in a vector file, export it as a flat picture at a generous size and upload that; nothing is lost, because what matters is the shape, not the path data.
Whatever goes in, the same thing comes out: real font files. So “image to TTF”, “PNG to font” and “SVG to font” all end in the same place — an installable family in TTF, OTF, WOFF and WOFF2, ready for a desktop, a website or a print job.
The manual route: Photoshop, Illustrator, FontForge
There is an older way to do this, and it is worth knowing what it costs. You open the picture in Photoshop, clean it up, trace each letter into vectors in Illustrator, import the outlines into FontForge or Glyphs, set the sidebearings, kern the pairs and export. For twenty-six uppercase letters a careful designer needs a day. For a family covering upper and lower case, digits, punctuation and accents, closer to a week.
The catch is not the tracing — it is everything the picture does not contain. Your logo has seven letters; a working font needs the rest of the alphabet drawn in the same hand, plus spacing and kerning that hold together at every size. That invention is the actual craft, and it is the part the manual route makes slowest.
Generating the family and then correcting it flips the order: you start from a complete draft and spend your attention on the letters that are wrong, instead of drawing the ones that are obvious. If you prefer the manual route, nothing here stops you — export the draft and take it into your own editor.
Is it legal to make a font from an image?
In most jurisdictions the shape of letters is not itself protected — what copyright covers is the font software, the file. That is why so many typefaces exist as near-identical twins under different names. Generating new font files inspired by a style you saw creates new, original files rather than copying anyone’s.
Two things are genuinely different, and worth keeping straight. A brand’s name and its wordmark are trademarks: you can build a font in the spirit of a famous logo, but using it to pass yourself off as that brand is a separate problem and not a typographic one. And the rules vary — Germany, for instance, does protect typeface designs in a way most countries do not. If a project is commercially serious, treat this page as a starting point and your lawyer as the finishing one.
One last thing worth saying out loud: sometimes you do not need a new font at all, because the one in your picture is an ordinary typeface you could simply install. It costs nothing to check first. Font Finder by Image →
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