Delano Caps is a Display font and its attributes include decorative, engraving, caps only. Delano Caps is similar to URW Dextor which was originally designed by L. Meuffels in 1994. Dextor was originally offered by the French company, Mecanorma. It is also offered by URW, Linotype and Scangraphic.

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Henderson combines both round and sharp stems and serifs and it has a distinct, late 60s feel. It is at home with the late 60s pop art feel of its era. Its sharp and pointy serifs are probably its most unique feature. Henderson is slightly condensed with tall x-heights like many other display faces intended for use is advertising headlines.

This font comes in TrueType (TTF) and OpenType PostScript (OTF) formats. The PostScript variety makes it a good candidate for professional layouts output by printers and service bureaus.

WhatTheFont supports most common image file formats such as BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc. The website offers tips for getting a good result, such as the maximum size of the uploaded image and the optimum number of pixels for the letter height.

The results are very impressive. Even with a low resolution sample, if it is upsampled in Photoshop and steps are taken to create a clean image, the results can be spot on. You can use Photoshop to clean up the image by converting all the characters to black and white and adjusting the brightness and contrast to get nice, dark letters. Then you can go to the trouble to make sure each letter is separated by a little space.

I have used this tool over and over and it has saved me a ton of time looking through specimen sheets trying to find that font that I just know, but can’t remember the name.