Font Acquisition - Grabbing From In Design - New to In Design

[VanezBlane]

Hello Forum Users,

I'm new to using In Design, as I'm self taught and trying to pick up the tricks I need as I go along. I appreciate any help or tips I can get!

My question at the moment is: How can I glean the font type used in a stock vector I purchased for an extended license? I want to replace the text with my own for re-purposing.

If any of you know this font off hand let me know please, it's file #87728052, It's the bottom right graphic. I tried using the selection tool and seeing if it had it in it's data base, but no such luck. Again I am very new at this, so just realize I may ask stupid questions. When I select the Text It doesn't register as a text type at all? It is a Vector obviously, but I have no idea how to proceed to actually add the text that I want.

Thanks for taking a look, I hope I can get a few tips!

[Willi Adelberger]

You have to do it in Illustrator, not in InDesign.

[Jongware]

Apart from that (InDesign is not a vector editing application), chances are high it's not live text in Illustrator either. In fact, you're very lucky if you can select and delete all of the "text" (more likely, all of its separate objects) at once.

The font is very similar to Gotham, by the way.

[Luke_Jennings · Accepted solution]

There are a few free websites that allow you to submit an image of some type and will try to guess which font is used. Here is one:

WhatTheFont! « MyFonts

You will need to first save a copy of the vector file as an image.

You can remove the original type in Illustrator, then replace it in either Illustrator or InDesign (after placing the vector file) using type on a path.

[Bill Silbert]

Adding to Luke's comment: Another free site to identify text is What Font is | WhatFontis.com.

The advantage of this one is it usually gives you 100 suggestions compared to WhatTheFont!'s dozen or so.

[VanezBlane]

Thanks Bill, I'll try both ; )

[VanezBlane]

Thanks Luke, that's very helpful. This will give me some more direction: I'll see what I can do!

[VanezBlane]

Thanks everyone, that was really helpful, I looked carefully and found out it's Nevis Bold. My there are a lot of very similar ones out there.

[Derek Cross]

It might be worth you also undertaking some InDesign training. There are some useful books and there are excellent online video tutorials from Pluralsite.com and Lynda.com such as: InDesign CC 2017 Essential Training

You can get a 30-day free trial with both of these organisations.

And, of course, you can ask specific questions on this friendly forum.