More clarity, better words, please.
:)
the font, as long as the text is editable, select the type layer and open the character palette and it'll be listed there. if the font is embedded (rasterized) there's nothing you can do except guess.
there are some websites that can help you, where they have utilities and experts on font faces who might help you to identify something...
it was probably phos or one of the other gurus who told me about it.