Inspect the design
See the document’s fonts, variants, point sizes, colour palette, type hierarchy and WCAG contrast results.
One private browser tool for the jobs people usually need several websites to do. Identify fonts, sizes and colours; choose one page, several pages or a page range; download the selection as a new PDF; split pages into separate files; or save selected text as an editable Word document or plain-text file. Nothing is uploaded.
Upload once, then use any or all of the tools below. Your original PDF remains unchanged.
See the document’s fonts, variants, point sizes, colour palette, type hierarchy and WCAG contrast results.
Select one page, several pages or a range such as 1,3–5. Download them together as one PDF or separately in a ZIP.
Export all pages or only your selected pages as an editable .docx file or a clean plain-text document.
After analysis, select page thumbnails or enter a page range. Max 10 MB. Your file never leaves your device.
What Font PDF uses Mozilla's open-source PDF.js library to parse the internal structure of your PDF directly inside your browser. Every text operator is inspected for its font reference, computed point size and fill colour. Results are deduplicated, categorised by role in the document's typography hierarchy, and presented with actionable information.
Most PDF tools give you a flat list of fonts. What Font PDF goes further — it analyses point sizes and usage frequency to classify each font–size combination as Display, Heading, Subheading, Body or Caption. This lets you see the document's typographic system at a glance, exactly as the designer intended it.
When What Font PDF detects a commercial typeface — Helvetica, Garamond, Futura, Gotham, Proxima Nova and dozens more — it suggests the closest free alternative available on Google Fonts. This is invaluable for web projects where licensing desktop fonts is impractical, or for startups matching a professional aesthetic without the cost.
What Font PDF tests every significant colour combination found in your document against WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines. Each pair is rated for AA and AAA compliance at both normal and large text sizes. Designers doing accessibility audits can identify failing colour combinations before a document goes to press or publication.
Need one page out of a five-page PDF, or a clean copy of pages 3–7? Select pages by clicking their thumbnails or typing a range like 1,3-5, then download the selection as a single new PDF — or as a ZIP with each page in its own file, plus a manifest of the fonts used on those pages. Unlike upload-based extractors, the pages are rebuilt locally with the open-source pdf-lib library: no account, no watermark, and your document never touches a server.
The same page selection can be saved as an editable Word document (.docx) with real page breaks, or as a plain .txt file — select nothing and the whole document is exported. Conversion happens entirely in your browser, so it is safe for contracts, reports and any confidential file. Note that layout-heavy PDFs export as flowing text: you get the words and paragraphs, not a pixel-perfect replica of the design.
Everything runs client-side using JavaScript. Your PDF never leaves your computer. There is no server upload, no cloud processing, and no data retention. What Font PDF is safe for confidential documents, legal contracts, financial reports, medical records, and any file you would not share with a third-party service.
The tool supports Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts embedded in the document, and extracts colours from RGB, greyscale and CMYK operators with automatic hex conversion. Scanned PDFs consisting entirely of raster images will not yield font data — the text must be actual embedded text rather than a flattened scan.
No. Everything runs inside your browser using JavaScript. Your PDF never leaves your device — there is no upload, no cloud processing and no data retention.
Yes. After analysis, click page thumbnails or type a range like 1,3-5, then download the selection as one new PDF or as a ZIP with each page as its own file plus a manifest of the fonts used on those pages.
Yes. The selected pages — or the whole document if nothing is selected — can be saved as a .docx Word file or a .txt plain-text file, generated locally in your browser.
Scanned PDFs are pictures of text rather than embedded text, so there are no font records to read. The text must be real embedded text for font detection and text export to work.