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Whatfontis by remorses — Agent Skill

Name: Whatfontis
Author: remorses

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WhatFontIs API

Identify fonts from images using the WhatFontIs.com REST API. Searches a catalog of 990K+ fonts (commercial and free). Returns up to 20 ranked matches with font name, type (free/commercial), and source.

API docs: https://ggp.whatfontis.com/API-identify-fonts-from-image.html

Auth

WHATFONTISKEY is already set in the environment. Just use $WHATFONTISKEY in curl commands. Free tier: 200 requests/day.

Identify font from a local image file

Encode the image as base64 and send it with IMAGEBASE64=1:

IMG_B64=$(base64 -i /path/to/image.png)

curl -s -X POST "https://www.whatfontis.com/api2/" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  --data-urlencode "API_KEY=$WHATFONTISKEY" \
  --data-urlencode "IMAGEBASE64=1" \
  --data-urlencode "urlimagebase64=$IMG_B64" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=10" | python3 -m json.tool

Identify font from an image URL

Pass the URL directly with IMAGEBASE64=0:

curl -s -X POST "https://www.whatfontis.com/api2/" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
  --data-urlencode "API_KEY=$WHATFONTISKEY" \
  --data-urlencode "IMAGEBASE64=0" \
  --data-urlencode "urlimage=https://example.com/screenshot.png" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=10" | python3 -m json.tool

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
`API_KEY` (required)	str	Your API key from env var `WHATFONTISKEY`
`IMAGEBASE64`	int	`0` = use `urlimage`, `1` = use `urlimagebase64`
`urlimage`	str	Public URL to an image (when `IMAGEBASE64=0`)
`urlimagebase64`	str	Base64-encoded image data (when `IMAGEBASE64=1`)
`NOTTEXTBOXSDETECTION`	int	`0` = auto-detect text box, `1` = search whole image
`FREEFONTS`	int	`0` = all fonts, `1` = only free fonts
`limit`	int	Number of results, 1-20 (default: 2)

Response shape

[
  {
    "title": "Red Rock Regular",
    "url": "https://www.whatfontis.com/NMY_Red-Rock-Regular.font",
    "image": "https://d1ly52g9wjvbd2.cloudfront.net/img16/...",
    "type": "Commercial",
    "site": "Myfonts.com"
  }
]

title: font name
url: font page on WhatFontIs (shareable link)
type: Commercial or Free
site: where the font is available

Tips

For images with small or overlapping text, try NOTTEXTBOXSDETECTION=1 to scan the whole image.
Use FREEFONTS=1 to filter results to only free fonts.
Discord CDN URLs expire after ~24h. For Discord images, download the file first and use base64 upload.
Present results as a table with font name, type, and source for easy scanning.

---name: whatfontisdescription: Identify fonts from images using the WhatFontIs API (990K+ font catalog). Use when the user wants to identify a font from a screenshot, image file, or image URL. Covers base64 upload and URL-based requests via curl.---# WhatFontIs APIIdentify fonts from images using the WhatFontIs.com REST API. Searches a catalog of 990K+ fonts (commercial and free). Returns up to 20 ranked matches with font name, type (free/commercial), and source.API docs: https://ggp.whatfontis.com/API-identify-fonts-from-image.html## Auth`WHATFONTISKEY` is already set in the environment. Just use `$WHATFONTISKEY` in curl commands. Free tier: 200 requests/day.## Identify font from a local image fileEncode the image as base64 and send it with `IMAGEBASE64=1`:```bashIMG_B64=$(base64 -i /path/to/image.png)curl -s -X POST "https://www.whatfontis.com/api2/" \ -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ --data-urlencode "API_KEY=$WHATFONTISKEY" \ --data-urlencode "IMAGEBASE64=1" \ --data-urlencode "urlimagebase64=$IMG_B64" \ --data-urlencode "limit=10" | python3 -m json.tool```## Identify font from an image URLPass the URL directly with `IMAGEBASE64=0`:```bashcurl -s -X POST "https://www.whatfontis.com/api2/" \ -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \ --data-urlencode "API_KEY=$WHATFONTISKEY" \ --data-urlencode "IMAGEBASE64=0" \ --data-urlencode "urlimage=https://example.com/screenshot.png" \ --data-urlencode "limit=10" | python3 -m json.tool```## Parameters| Parameter | Type | Description ||-----------|------|-------------|| `API_KEY` (required) | str | Your API key from env var `WHATFONTISKEY` || `IMAGEBASE64` | int | `0` = use `urlimage`, `1` = use `urlimagebase64` || `urlimage` | str | Public URL to an image (when `IMAGEBASE64=0`) || `urlimagebase64` | str | Base64-encoded image data (when `IMAGEBASE64=1`) || `NOTTEXTBOXSDETECTION` | int | `0` = auto-detect text box, `1` = search whole image || `FREEFONTS` | int | `0` = all fonts, `1` = only free fonts || `limit` | int | Number of results, 1-20 (default: 2) |## Response shape```json[ { "title": "Red Rock Regular", "url": "https://www.whatfontis.com/NMY_Red-Rock-Regular.font", "image": "https://d1ly52g9wjvbd2.cloudfront.net/img16/...", "type": "Commercial", "site": "Myfonts.com" }]```- **title**: font name- **url**: font page on WhatFontIs (shareable link)- **type**: `Commercial` or `Free`- **site**: where the font is available## Tips- For images with small or overlapping text, try `NOTTEXTBOXSDETECTION=1` to scan the whole image.- Use `FREEFONTS=1` to filter results to only free fonts.- Discord CDN URLs expire after ~24h. For Discord images, download the file first and use base64 upload.- Present results as a table with font name, type, and source for easy scanning.

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