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>>> Type ID Pop Quiz V2.5 - Expert Level
Posted by Florian Hardwig in
14 May 2010 — 8:56am
14 May 2010 — 8:56am
This is how it works:
- A portion of a glyph is published in the Type ID Pop Quiz.
- Try to identify the glyph and the typeface. To win, you need to name at least:
- typeface
- weight
- character/glyph
- Show off your knowledge by casually mentioning additional trivia, like who designed it, when and by whom was it (first) published, and other cool stuff to impress your fellow Typophiles with.
- The winner produces a new challenge – a portion of a glyph, black on white background, presented in a 288 × 288 pixel square, including a R204G000B00 1 pixel border.
- The person who posts a challenge can’t win the next game.
In case of any disputes, Mr Bald Condensed or me will act as judge, jury and avenging angel of wrath.
If you think this is a little too difficult, maybe try the Entry Level Type ID Pop Quiz or Intermediary Level Type ID Pop Quiz first.
Good luck everyone, and have fun. ;^)
With respectful thanks to the originator of this utterly useless but highly entertaining waste of time, the often imitated but never duplicated Cheshire Dave.
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11 Jul 2011 — 2:39am
You're definitely right about the italic. And it’s the regular one.
24 Sep 2011 — 3:34am
All right, no move for quite a long time, let’s show the whole glyph…
24 Sep 2011 — 10:44am
That’s Storm’s Serapion Italic.
I know those lacrymal terminals anywhere!
Mike :-)
25 Sep 2011 — 11:12pm
You’re right Mike :)
A beautifuly crafted and ballanced typeface, released for the first time in 1997 by Františěk Štorm’s type foundry Střešovická písmolijna (Storm Type Foundry).
Now it’s your turn!
23 Feb 2012 — 11:43am
Bump. Hey SuperUltraFabulous, you've had five months, have you come up with a new challenge yet? ;-)
17 Apr 2012 — 10:20am
Bump!
17 Apr 2012 — 2:00pm
Craig, if Mike (SuperUltraFabulous ) hasn’t posted a new challenge within the next 24 hours, I hereby decree that it is your turn to do so.
7 Jun 2012 — 10:09am
Okay, here we go.
7 Jun 2012 — 11:42am
Is that the original rotation? Is it a w?
7 Jun 2012 — 12:04pm
Yes, it's not rotated. No, not a w.
7 Jun 2012 — 12:07pm
|&| would be too predictable, right?
7 Jun 2012 — 1:17pm
Not an ampersand.
7 Jun 2012 — 1:55pm
Cound it be an /f/?
7 Jun 2012 — 2:07pm
Not an f.
7 Jun 2012 — 4:44pm
k?
7 Jun 2012 — 5:30pm
Not a k.
7 Jun 2012 — 11:41pm
Is it a /b/?
8 Jun 2012 — 6:24am
Not a b.
Another view, same scale:
And no, it's not an /e/ :-)
You might say the designer prioritized getting the liaisons between letters to work over using a conventional structure for this particular letter.
8 Jun 2012 — 9:28am
Mistral, non? I was actually going to guess that as soon as I saw it, but having seen Mistral in metal I guess the digital outlines don't do it justice.
BTW, on what planet was that 24 hours? (That can probably be specifically answered actually. But this is not Astronomophile.)
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 8:48am
Mistral is right. And the glyph?
You're right that this is an old and crappy digitization I found on my computer, the outlines of which don't do justice to the original (but it's the only one I had on hand to zoom so close into).
8 Jun 2012 — 8:54am
x
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 9:00am
Hrant should still win for identifying the typeface, but is it the /x/?
8 Jun 2012 — 9:02am
Wow, I never noticed how peculiar Mistral's |x| is!
Now we know how an hastly written Turkish Lira will look ;-)
8 Jun 2012 — 9:06am
So is it my turn? How hard am I supposed to make this? Digital fonts only?
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 9:23am
Yes, it's Mistral's /x/. Hrant has it.
8 Jun 2012 — 9:26am
This should be about right:
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 11:08pm
Okay, I guess we're guessing glyphs again then. :) It is a /G/?
8 Jun 2012 — 11:26pm
Hmmm, I guess I'd have to say: yes and no. :-)
hhp
9 Jun 2012 — 5:49pm
I'm hoping to pass the baton before my trip on the 13th, so I'm not going to wait too long before dropping a hint:
This font lives in a large, conventional house.
--
BTW, I just realized I was supposed to show off. I mean about the one I got, Mistral. So, behold the large and small masters of the /a in metal Mistral:
hhp
10 Jun 2012 — 1:05am
Are we talking about middlecase/uncial or simply small caps?
10 Jun 2012 — 6:29am
It's lowercase.
hhp
10 Jun 2012 — 6:50am
It seems I was overcomplicating your answer ;-)
21 Jun 2012 — 11:00pm
OK, back from my epic journey to Yerevan, Istanbul and Reading, it seems I need to drop another hint...
And I'll just list them all here:
- The glyph is a lowercase /g.
- The font lives in a large, conventional house.
- And: The family features three "flavors" (each in four weights).
hhp
21 Jun 2012 — 11:03pm
It's from Summer Stone?
22 Jun 2012 — 6:44am
He lives in the same half of the same state, but he's younger.
hhp
26 Jun 2012 — 12:39pm
Reliq
I'd punt at standard extra active.
26 Jun 2012 — 2:33pm
Bingo! Good job, good job.
Don't forget to show off something you know about Reliq and/or Carl.
Aaaaand you're up.
hhp
27 Jun 2012 — 2:12am
Sorry, I don't know anything about Reliq or Carl. I just thought from your sample that if it was a lower case g, that shape must be from a kind of uncial font.
Here's a quite interesting article about Roger Excoffon though that some of you might have missed... http://typofonderie.com/gazette/post/roger-excoffon-a-part-of-the-mythol...
27 Jun 2012 — 2:21am
Ok, here goes... Not sure if this is easy or difficult. We'll see
27 Jun 2012 — 6:47am
I know that article because I translated it :-) since it's included in Rault's book about Excoffon.
hhp
27 Jun 2012 — 4:09pm
That's a lowercase p or n.
27 Jun 2012 — 5:22pm
No. It is a tricky one then...
It is lower case
28 Jun 2012 — 6:24am
If it's neither p or n it has to be m, doesn't it? Or a strange ligature involving r?
28 Jun 2012 — 6:34am
Well, it's not a p, n or m ;)
28 Jun 2012 — 7:40am
|r|?
28 Jun 2012 — 7:44am
r-something.
I'll give you a clue - this glyph appears in the name of the font
28 Jun 2012 — 7:56am
Ah, that might have made it too searchable. :) Livory italic: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hvdfonts/livory/italic/
28 Jun 2012 — 8:13am
Yep, well done. Sorry I made it too easy.
29 Jun 2012 — 10:47am
Bum, I don't know any exciting trivia about Livory. Maybe you can supply some?
In the meantime, here's the next challenge:
29 Jun 2012 — 1:12pm
S, Sterling or french ampersand?