Thanks to the Google Personalized Homepage's new "Recommendations" feature, I found the following website:
Identifont
It allows you to either
a) Look up a font face by name
b) Look up a font by distinguishing features
B is time-consuming as it asks you to examine all the details possible on the font - the style of the lowercase 'g' or uppercase 'K', or how many lines are in a $, etc.
I haven't tried it out on any fonts in particular, but it looks extensive and possibly quite powerful, if you're trying to figure out a font someone else has used - or at the very least find something of a similar vein.
In either case, it'll return a graphic of the font (showing alpha characters) as well as information on the font and where you might be able to purchase it.
Nifty!
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You can also try http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ where you upload an image and it tries to figure out the font based on that.
The bad part is that although the service is free and it turns good results I have get to have a submission where it didn't return all fonts that must be purchased. :( If you don't mind paying for fonts though it's a good idea!
Thanks for the information. Very helpful indeed.
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