This is pure genius! The folk over at What the Font have developed an iPhone application which allows you to simply take a photo with the built in camera, (or chose an existing picture from an album,) crop it to just the type, and upload it. After identifying the letterforms, it suggests a list of similar fonts, which you can either email to yourself, or go straight to MyFonts via the built in Safari.

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