Adobe Illustrator now offers a feature called Retype for font identification in raster images and outlined text. Users can select text in an image, identify matching fonts, and convert the text to editable format.
This feature supports Latin scripts and is available for testing and feedback in Illustrator on desktop, with the option to activate fonts from Adobe Fonts for future use across Creative Cloud apps. The feature is expected to make your design much nicer or the probability to create GIF image at an instant!
- Select the image or outlined text, and then select Type > Retype. You see a dotted line around all the words that Retype detects. The Retype panel also appears.
- Select the image or outlined text, and then select Type > Retype. You see a dotted line around all the words that Retype detects. The Retype panel also appears.
- Select the word in the image or outlined text you want to edit. The Retype panel shows 10 matching fonts as suggestions, ordered by the closeness to the font of the selected word. Font suggestions from both Adobe Fonts and system fonts are enabled by default. You can choose to turn off either of them by deselecting From Adobe Fonts or From your device respectively in Apply Filter
- (Optional) Select Find more font matches at the bottom of the panel to find five more matching fonts. Also, you can type in your own text in the Retype panel to preview it with the given font suggestions.
- Select the preferred font on the Retype panel, and then double-click the word on the canvas. The word gets converted into live text. If the font you apply is an Adobe Font and it isn’t already activated, it gets activated.
- Select Press & hold to view your source image for comparison. You can also restore your original image by selecting Revert to your source image.
- Repeat the steps if you want to convert more words in the image or outlined text into live text.
- Press Esc to exit the Retype mode, and then double-click the live text to edit it.