You’ve been clamouring its return, and now — finally — we witness its triumphant rebirth. Laydeez and gennelmun, I’m humbled and honoured to kickstart Version 2.0 of the ridiculously popular Type ID Pop Quiz!

OK kids, playtime’s over, let’s get down to bizz-nizz. Last one out the gates is a smelly sock.

Character i (or j) from Maiola Regular designed by Veronika Burian.
She designed this typeface in 2003 in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Arts in Typeface Design, from The University of Reading.
Maiola was one of the TDC2 2004 winning entries. This typeface was recently added to the FontFont library, and first appeared in its Catalogue 2004-05 Addendum, on page 3. It covers Extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
I find it amazing the way she handled the curves. It’s a beautiful typeface full of (Czech) character.

Yes, Maiola is a very nice piece of work indeed.

T

Whoa, Miguel, you know how it’s done. :^D

Perfect ID, it was the “i” indeed. You’re up next. You’ve got let’s say 48 hours to post a new challenge. Make it a good one! ;^)

Hurray! :^D
Ok, I’ll try to do my best.

Here it goes...

Woohoo, we’re back on the right track! :^)

I think this might be a Q of some sorts, but even that I’m not sure of. Don’t answer and give away the glyph just yet, let’s wait for some more contenders. ;^)

This might also a part of Z or 2 or iz or...

Wow! Big challenge!

That’s armenian! (maybe)
Maybe r, but I don’t think it’s from Calouste.
At any rate it’s non-roman, yes?

Nope, it’s latin, and in the a to z scope.

(I would never be that presumptuous. Besides, using Calouste would have made the quiz too easy. I can’t underestimate you guys that much ;^)

As Randy think, Is this could be the Armenian small letter JHEH? If so, now I’ve to find the typeface...

At any rate it’s non-roman, yes?

Let’s agree not to use any funky scripts, OK? It’s already hard enough as it is! :^P

Hey Yves, not nice! :-)
Then at least make a separate non-Latin sister to this.

hhp

Re:Nope, it’s latin, and in the a to z scope.
Wow. Very funky.

I think it’s italic.
I think it’s a z. Yes?
I think the typeface is... well I have no idea.
How’d I do on the other parts?

R

After some ’yes’ and ’no’ questions, I found out that the straight stroke is the part sitting on the baseline.

It isn’t a q, nor is it an n, and neither is it a z.

> After some ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions

You mean off-line? Is this allowed? Yves, DISQUALIFY THE MISSY! ;-)

—

Must be a cap-Q, no?

hhp

So far, the only one closer is Randy. Yes, it’s italic.
And again, it is Latin!

What else can I say...
The designer published a typeface family with Linotype in 1999, and recently published this one under his/her own foundry name.

Is it an italic y?

Yes Nick, well done!

Now the typeface...

Hmmm looks familiar...you’d think I’d know it but the fact of the matter is I haven’t got a clue.

...by Gary Munch ? - he designed Really 1999

…by Gary Munch ?
No

At last...

Tim Ahrens’ Lapture (Italic) (Just Another Foundry).
http://justanotherfoundry.com/Lapture/index.htm

Linotype Aroma was the 1999 font family.

(Thanks everyone who knew what it was but were feeling sorry for me because they thought it would be unfair to gazump me after I had correctly identified it was a y!)

Congratulations!
Your turn :^)

Shouldn’t take too long.

5

Yes, 5. (Not E or F.)

trade gothic?

No, a bit older than that (this version is younger though).

When I say older than Trade Gothic I mean older than 1948 but younger than News Gothic 1908. The version I captured above was designed in 1979 if that helps.

news gothic

No, not News Gothic (see above).

> younger than News Gothic

Alternate Gothic 1903?

1979? It’s not Franklin Gothic is it?

- Lex

> After some ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions

> You mean off-line? Is this allowed? Yves, DISQUALIFY THE MISSY! ;-)

Tiff, I know you’ve got an inside track to the Portuguese guy, but do that again and you’re barred from the Type ID Pop Quiz for life. Hrant has a point. :^D ;^) :^P

What did I tell ya? Avenging Angel of Wrath, baybee. Didn’t know the abuse of power would taste so sweet... :^D

BTW Great challenge, Miguel. And a beautiful face too. Very nice angularity.

Nope, its not Franklin Gothic either.

The 5 is not italic.

It this Johnston’s Underground?

You are very close, Jan. I think I’m going to have to let you have it.

It’s New Johnston Medium (by Colin Banks of Banks and Miles 1979) which I think has recently been overhauled for Transport for London (formerly London Transport).

I would also have allowed Dave Farey and Richard Dawson’s ITC Johnston Medium.

Here are all ten numerals. I still don’t understand why the arm of the 5 is cut off at such a strange angle.

Your turn...

OK, here we go...

italic lowercase v

yes, it’s italic lowercase v.

The sharp corners lead me to believe this is by a young designer. Is this true? (silly theory)

Storm’s DynaGrotesk DC Bold Italic

Frantisek Storm. 2001.

> The sharp corners lead me to believe this is by a young designer.

Killer observation (although more “young at heart”).

hhp

Very Good Tiffany... Not 100% perfec thou, it’s not “DC” but “D”.

Correct answer is also StormType’s DynaGrotesk D bold italic

your turn, Miss Tiffany.

(BTW, is it OK to post these “explanatory” images in this thread?)

I think DynaGrotesk is one of the most beautiful sans serifs currently available. With the roman being a good masculine counterpart for the curvaceous and elegant italic.

So I have 48 hours?

(BTW, is it OK to post these “explanatory” images in this thread?)

Yes, please do. One of the nice things about this game is that it allows us to direct our fellow Typophiles to maybe lesser-known faces that we like and admire. That’s also why I added the trivia bit in my introduction to the game.

So I have 48 hours?

Don’t take that too literally — I just added that to avoid the thread dying out. If that ever happens, I’ll step in and post a new challenge myself. You can certainly take your time to look for a really interesting challenge.

Killer observation (...).

Miss Tifanny knows her type, that is a fact.

Ok. Sorry. I’m old, memory is bad. If my stroke color is wrong or too thick ... tough.

Is this Brothers?

Huh, what’s that extra pixel at 2-o’clock?

hhp

it’s an 8, isn’t it?

Nope, the counters in Brothers seem to be round...

huh? nope. nope.

Foundry Gridnik Bold (is it a B?)

nope. nope.

I thought I had it — the B of JAF Mashine, designed by the talented Tim Ahrens, available through his inadequately named Just Another Foundry.

But alas... :^/

So it’s a sneaky 3?

yep.

Teco, but I know it’s not really.

And I thought it was one Identikal job.

nope. nope.

LTC Octic Gothic #2.

Link, Nick! We wanna check them out! ;^)

:^D Good job, Nick! Glad to have helped you waste that past 45 minutes. Your go!

Apologies, LTC Octic Gothic here from P22:
www.p22.com/lanston/products/octicgothic.html

New one...

A lower case r?

something from star trek? =^>

Closest I’ve gotten is Soda Smooth, but it’s missing the 3-D effect.

I am so not qualified to play this game, but this form intrigues me. There’s something really **** up about the perspective. When i extrapolate the lines, i get something kinda like this:

is this on the right track? Some kind of “m” or ...???

-marian

nick you’re going to have to give of some sort of clever pun -slash- clue.

nice visualization, marian. i’m seeing one of those cool old 3d seventies fonts.

Marian

> I am so not qualified to play this game...

I think you’re better at it than you think. Your just missing the stem on the left for a perfect m - great sketching!

It looks kinda 70s but this “weight” wasn’t actually designed until mid-80s. Yep, its a 3D version of a simpler font, which was my favourite font at university.

BTW, it comes in italics only. There’s no upright to my knowledge but can you imagine if there was...!

Profil?

Nope. Not Profil although I’m loving that.

Is that font could be :

Crillee Italic Inline Shadow

the Crillee Italic Inline Shadow lower case m :

You know it is! I love your graphic.
Your turn!

What a challenge!. I wonder if it’s not harder to choose a glyph than finding the response
; )

Here the mine, one of my favorite glyph.

lowercase g?

That’s a lowercase g.

Typeface or weight now

Crillee Italic Inline Shadow

Oh, His Divine Shadow! (obscure Canadian pop culture in-joke) No wonder I couldn’t understand the perspective.

Why has this thread fallen off the front page? It took me ages to find it again.

-marian

Hmm.. it’s still on my front page?

Hmm.. it’s still on my front page?

Freaky weird. All the “Newest Links” are current, but “Hottest” starts with “Non-Common Greek Caps” with this thread nowhere in sight. [yes, shift re-load, yes, quit and restarted Safari]. Anyway, I know where to find it now.

-marian

This g appears to sit exactly on the baseline, is that true? Then it’s all about the ear. Still have no idea.

He effectively sits on the baseline. Do you want a clue?

How about Charlotte Sans Medium.
I’ll try to get a sample up soon.

Hmmmmm... just a wee eentzy-teentzy off :-(