I think one of the most difficult bits of being a web designer is finding the right font for the job. It can be so frustrating, especially when you come to the realisation that there are tens of thousands of fonts, and many hundreds can be alike. It makes it a daunting task, especially to identify a font from a sample.
People who don’t deal with fonts on a daily basis think there must be some magical database where you say ah yes, double story ‘a’ with serifs, that’s this one font. No, there’s thousands. Take your pick.
At work I found a useful tool to use was Identifont, you can simply identify a font with questions about the whole alphabet or even more importantly, tell Identifont that you have a word or two and it’ll ask questions specifically about the letters in those words. Mind you, it comes up with a lot of choices at the end of course, but it does narrow it down.
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