Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.
The need to match a particular font comes up fairly often in web development. There are a number of such apps/websites to help with this, the most well known of which is probably WhatTheFont [https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont/].
However, 90% of the time I don't care what font is used; what I really want is the closest free equivalent, preferably hosted on Google Fonts. I'd be interested to see if somebody could come up with an app that does this.
Clearly this is a fairly niche application, but all the same I’m surprised no one has built a font identifier in the past few years based on modern machine learning techniques.