: How do I vectorize an image (bmp) of text to resemble actual text? I have .bmp of some text that needs to be vectorized, when I use image trace it comes out horrible and doesn't look like

@Turnbaugh909

Creating a font is not an easy task, even if you only need to create a few letters. And it’s even worse if you have no experience with it.

You have to match several distances, angles and shapes to each other, you have to properly align the letters to each other, etc. Though this does not directly relate to your problem, it is quite illustrating that rasterising text is a science on its own.

Expert font creators may spend years on creating a font. Though they do not have a sample to start with and need to create more than just a few letters, this should give you an idea of the time required for this. And just to back this up somewhat: In the last three years, I spent large portions of my free time on digitalising an existing analogue font.

Therefore identifying the font will almost certainly be the best way to go. You can even ask font-identifying questions here (after you have tried the automated resources). For more details, take a look at the tag wiki for font-identification.

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@Cofer715

Upload a portion of your .bmp to www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ and hope that the font can be recognized. Otherwise, find a similar font and go with that.

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