Lex, you’re up. Here’s the previous thread.

Here’s the image:

- Lex

Couldn’t you really make it any harder? :^D

Boy am I glad I started these Entry Level and Intermediary Level quizzes. :^P

Couldn’t you really make it any harder? :^D

Well, it’s a Garalde, and the glyph is ‘e’ or ‘c’ … No?! It’s a ‘€’ from some pomo hybrid face? Okay, I shut my mouth.
;°)

Oh come on guys - It’s not that hard ;-)

It’s not ’e’, ’c’, or ’€’.

Maybe this will help:

Same glyph, same scale.

- Lex

A ct or st ligature?

Nick Cooke

ct-lig, my first impression, too.

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

It’s not a ligature.

- Lex

A swash cap, perhaps ?

I thought that it could be æ, œ or even the ß.

Not a swash cap.

The letter is used in everyday English, so it’s none of those crazy foreign-lookin’ things, Andre.

- Lex

Does the “portion of the glyph” need to be upright and un-mirrored/flipped?

I thought the same thing.
I took both images to Photoshop and moved them around.
still made no sense to me.

wild quess: some numeral (6 or 9) maybe BaskerVille
(real wild guess)

Something by Sudtipos?

Is it an ampersand?

Looks like ’P’.

Neither portion of the glyph has been rotated, skewed, flipped, reversed, or transformed in any way other than cropping. Both portions are the same scale.

Not a numeral. Not an ampersand. It’s a letter.

It predates Sudtipos by a few decades or so.

- Lex

Not a ’P’.

- Lex

I think it’s a lowercase “a”, although I’m not sure of the font — yet.

Yes! It is a lowercase ’a’.

- Lex

No guesses yet? You guys should go back to school and study a little harder.

- Lex

So, it’s a two-storey ‘a’ from a pre-digital typeface, right?
What about that swash hint? Is it the regular ‘a’ in this face, or an alternate? Is it a script?

Two-storey ’a’: Yes.
Pre-digital: Yes.
Swash alternate: Yes.
Script: No.

- Lex

University Roman Italic Alternate by ITC?

Something with Flair.

We have a winner!

Possibly one of the ugliest ’a’s I’ve ever seen.

You’re up, Michael.

- Lex

It’s actually University Roman Alternate, not the Italic, but I’ll give it to you anyway since it was a hard one :-)

- Lex

You’re right. It is ugly!

Try this:

~Michæl

“g”?

Yes. It is a “g”.

Maybe I made this too easy.

Is it Kells?

It really looks like Celtic style...like Ceanannas or Corcaigh or Agedage Insular HU, hmm...

When looking closer, I think it might be Eirinn

You got it Lorem, Eirinn Gaelic . Sorry for the delay — had a night class tonight.

Tag, you’re it.

~Michæl

Ok, here it is. This one may be tough because it’s a custom face.

‘g’? No wait, it is lorem, so: ‘a’? ;°9

Might as well be lowercase s.

Florian, your first thought is right, it is g.

“g” from Stempel Garamond?

or may be Warnock Pro.

It is from a custom typeface. By a famous type designer.

Lowercase G. By Gerard Unger.

It’s from someone who’s older than Unger.

Meridien?

Yale typeface by Matthew Carter ?

Yale: no
Carter: yes

And Florian, you teased me with lowercase a - so here’s something of it, as a hint:

Sammy Roman

Fenway roman? Probably not, now that I see that “a.”

The g is quite popular. Nice typeface BTW. :^)

OK, everyone, here we go.

Hrm... ’D’ in some sort of Tuscan face?

- Lex

Or something in an art nouveau style?

Could also be a p, P, R, or B

@loremipsum: The link you provided to the Carter document doesn’t work. : (

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

Now the link is repaired, it contained space:

repaired link.

Even more on Carter:
http://storage.svettisku.cz/TYPO_2005_18.pdf

Yes, André, it’s a B — but it isn’t Tuscan nor Art Nouveau.

Er… where has everybody gone ?

Can you say if it’s a script or blackletter?

Yes, Michael, it’s based on an ancient script, but not a blackletter.

An uncial, perhaps?

No, sorry — an older script.

Ah, it’s getting closer — yes, it’s based on the rustica script, which was used in Rome from the 1st to the 5th century.

Cicero ?

Capitalis Rustica
edit:
My guess is Rusticana by Abode

But I’m wrong...

I’m afraid so.
A hint : the name of this typeface is a link between Aldus Manutius and John Baskerville.

Virgile

or Virgile bold?

Yes, Michael, it’s Virgile, by Franck Jalleau. Congratulations.

Your turn.

… I searched for ‘Virgil’, without the ‘e’ – ƒ#™ʁ∞♠☠✽ʘ!
Congrats, Michael!

Well done!

Thank you all. That was tough... and educational.

This one is a little more recent, so you’ll guess it in about ten minutes:

Cheers,

Michael

K?

Not a “K”

r?

Could also be a n, m or p

No bracketing in the serifs. Is this person under 30? Or is this a strictly geometric face?

André is correct. It’s an “M”. And yes, the designer is under 30. :)

It looks as though a hint is in need. Here’s two:

1. The designer is from Celeste’s neck of the woods.

2.

Is this S?

Hi Michael,
is it the ‘M’ of Sans Merci by Jack Usine aka SMeltery?

Florian,

Congrats. it is Sans Merci.

Your turn.

Yeah!
That M got struck by lightning …
To be continued:

Is this from a standard glyph or is it a dingbat of some sort?

- Lex

Hi Lex,
this is a standard glyph, i.e. Basic Latin.

Outlined?

Hi Marten,
no, you won’t call it outlined.
It’s a character all of you use every day.

Probably the @?

Hi André,
yep, it’s the ‘commercial at’.
Btw, is that a new avatar? Looks nice!

Thanks Forian!

Yep a new one. After 3 years it was about time to give a boost to my face ;^)

The font is from a foundry with a very good reputation among typophiles.
F

Fakir (Display Regular Condensed) by Underware ?

Hi Stéphane,
wow, you are very close – but still wrong.
F

Yeah, I can’t find any part of the glyph matching your first picture. It’s not Fakir, then ?

No, it’s not Fakir. This font is even younger.

Could it be, that the font goes well together with a couple of songs on a CD?

Hi Jan,
yeß, that’s the öne! :°)

I bet you got at the TYPO in Berlin this year. I know it was on sale there. I asked a friend in Berlin if she could get it for me but she failed. If I remember correctly the font was released especially for the TYPO.

I’ll leave this one to somebody else.

Blaktur?

Hi Marcelo,

yes, it’s Blaktur! (And yes, Jan, I got it at Typo Berlin, lucky me.)
Blaktur is so black; the ‘@’ couldn’t bear a ‘ring’ – so they went with a reversed ‘a’ for it. Brilliant idea, imho.

Brilliant idea indeed! Thanks Florian and thanks Jan, you take all the credit for this one.

Here we go

Come on! where is everybody?

Lowercase m? Give us a hint.

Hi Miss Tiffany!

no, not an m. Here is another image. Same glyph, same size.

An ampersand?

Hi Michael,

nope, not an ampersand.

Hint: Two designers were involved in the develop of this font.

A ligature like ‘en’ or ‘er’, perhaps?

Hi Florian!

not ‘en’ or ‘er’ but yes, it is a ligature.

The son of one of the designers, is following his father’s steps... he designed his first font this year.

I’m pretty sure I’ve found the typeface, but I can’t find the glyph. I only see ’fi’, ’fl’, ’th’, ’tk’, and ’tl’ ligatures online and none seem to match.

- Lex

Ok, I’m just going to guess - it’s an ’ar’ ligature in Lombriz by Angel Koziupa and Ale Paul.

- Lex

(Lombriz Alternate that is).

- Lex

hey Lex, congrats! it’s the ‘ar’ ligature in Lombriz opentype

you’re up!

BTW here is Mati , the font designed by Matias Paul, I think it’s wonderful, and the story about it too.

I wonder who would ever write an ‘a’ that way.

Here’s the next one.

- Lex

Hint: the designer is a longtime member of Typophile.

- Lex

Hint: the glyph is not a letter or number, but it is part of both the Latin-1 and Mac OS Roman character sets.

- Lex

No guesses? Here’s another image. Same glyph, same scale.

- Lex

Is anybody out there?

- Lex

lowercase g?

Paragraph?

... or bullet? as U+2022

if so, the designer has been a typophile member since 3 years and 14 weeks ago, right?

sorry, I think it’s paragraph but when I select the glyph in FontExplorer the info window says U+2022... ¿?

Yes, it’s the pilcrow (paragraph mark). In my version of the typeface, everything’s in the right spot(there’s a bullet in the U+2022 space).

The designer has been a typophile member for 3 years and 14 weeks :-)

- Lex

I’d like to solve this one, now that Marcelo made it easy … ;°)
Zalamander Caps Regular by Mr. Curve Tamer Tim Ahrens of Just Another Foundry fame.

That’s right - although I’ve got the free caps only version too, without misplaced characters.

Your turn, Florian.

- Lex

Alright!
Let’s see how quick you can find out the next one:

Different glyph, same scale:

[edit]
No takers at all? But you have been able to recognize the glyphs at least, haven’t you?
Next hint: The designer is from a small European country and now lives in another European country.

Oooh. It starts with P ... Pascal?

I’m sorry, Tiffany. It doesn’t start with ‘P’, and it’s not Pascal.
Assuming you refer to the font by José Mendoza y Almeida, I can add that the face is question is a lot newer; there’s no metal version of this one (maybe my first hint was a little bit misleading).

It was a total guess. A bad one too. I can see that the serif structure is a lot different from Pascal. Hmmm.

Here are the two glyphs shown before, at full size:

Something by Peter Bilak ?

— Tiffany, I’m not quite sure that Spain (where José Mendoza y Almeida was born) can qualify as a SMALL European country.

Salut Stéphane,

not so bad! – but sorry, it’s not by Peter Biľak.

As far as the countries are concerned: If this was Mastermind, I’d give you a white peg for Biľak. :°D

More hints: It’s a complete type family with a range of weights and italics. You could get a specimen for a mere € 2,90.

The connection was lost between “small” and “european country”. I would never call Spain small on purpose. :^D

So it is a matter of Slovakia-Netherlands journey, then ?

Spain: No. Slovakia: No. Netherlands: Yes!

[edit]
Oh dear, this seems to be more difficult than I expected …
Okay, let’s recapitulate: It’s by a Dutch designer who now lives in another European country.

New hints: He’s younger than Frank Blokland but older than Erik van Blokland.
The typeface has been renamed once.

And: I’ll give you another two – more distinctive – characters, each in two out of the various weights.
Now come up with some guesses! ;°)

Gerard Unger?

Hi Jan,
first of all: thanks for your guessing! I was afraid this quiz had died. ;°)
No, Gerard Unger is older than Frank Blokland, thus older than the guy we’re looking for – sorry.
However: Yes, Unger also has designed typefaces for the same special application that this face has been made for.

This is not as difficult as it seems to be. The designer really is well-known, definitely among typophiles (though he’s not an active typophile himself).
Well, as I mentioned before, it might be very hard to trace a sample of this face online. But then, it’s not an absolute obscure face. It has been mentioned in at least 8 typophile threads, and also on Unzipped or Fontblog …

More hints?

Just another wild guess to keep this going:

Fred Smeijers?

:°)
Even younger than Smeijers. But he also runs his own outlet.

If it’s so hard to trace a sample of this face online, is it custom then and not available for the public?

It’s kinda custom, but on the other hand it’s used by more than one enterprise (I know of two).
So, I assume that if you really want to license it, it should be possible (though I’m not entirely sure about that).

Toby: Yesss, it’s Luc(as) de Groot! Ah, you’re hot on its heels … ;—D

Floris is a continuation of Folha, isn´t it?

Max Kisman? - Just kidding ;-)

It’s not Luc(as) de Groot, is it?

Grattis Toby! Yes, it is Floris by Luc(as) de Groot.

The original name was ‘Lucas’, later de Groot renamed it after his son.

And yes, Floris is kind of a continuation (see this old thread) of Folha.

As typographic director at MetaDesign Luc(as) was responsible for many typographic projects over a period of 4 years. As part of the redesign of the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, he created an exclusive series of fonts.
[FontFabrik – see also for a PDF sample of Folha]

Floris is used by the French newspaper Le Monde.
[PDF]

What Hrant said about Floris:
superb […] serious but attractive, and very French in my eyes

Apparently, Floris isn’t exclusively licensed to Le Monde, as the Berlin based newspaper Jungle World uses it (in an enhanced version), too.

The samples that I’ve showed in the beginning had been taken from this headline:

Your turn, Toby!

I had this thread open so long I must have missed a lot until I suspected it to be Floris myself. Just couldn’t find a sample to make sure. Damn.

[double post]

Tack så mycket, Florian! OK guys, what do you make of this?

ß ?

That´s right Stéphane. It´s an ß...

..which narrows the search quite a bit. This was a commisioned typeface, but is now available for relicense. Here´s another image of the same glyph, same scale.

HTF Verlag ?

Oh, by the way…
http://typefoundry.blogspot.com/

It is! Verlag Black Italic to be precise. Well done. HTF Verlag was originally created for the Guggenheim Museum. It´s in the style of pre-war Modernism faces like Tempo and Vogue. Your turn, Stéphane!

Oh my — it was just a wild guess.
OK, here’s a new one.

Okay, let’s get this started: Is it a lowercase ‘a’ (or ‘d’, ‘u’)?

Welcome back, Florian.
Yes, it’s a lowercase ‘a’.

It is single-storey, and the typeface is younger than 5 years. Right?

Yes, it’s a single-storey “a”, but it’s a bit older than that — it was released in 2001.

And Florian, since you and I are the two last men standing on the Type ID Pop Quiz, I have another challenge posted on the ”Intermediate Level” thread, if you’re interested.

Okay, I’ll make a guess to keep this going: Is it from France?

Oh God, am I so predictable ?
Well, no, it’s not from France.

Could well be “w” - I don’t know...

…Or a single storey a. Could also be a lower case u or d.

[edit]: Oups! I did’nt read what’s Celeste wrote. Sorry.

Ce n’est pas grave, André — je suis déjà bien content que quelqu’un soit ENFIN passé par ici, je commençais à me sentir très très seul.

Is it a font suitable for larger amounts of text? Are there more than two weights?

Hello Florian — this font is part of a family of six, but they all have the same weight (close to UltraBlack, in my opinion). Therefore, it’s a display family.

Worcestershire of The Shire Types by Jeremy Tankard.

Well done, Jan!

It was the only thing that came to my mind matching the last hint ;-)

Yes, Jan, you’ve got it — congratulations !

Thanks Stéphane.

Here’s my first ever challenge on Expert Level (!):

Wow, really? Congratulations!

Okay: Is it an italic ‘k’?

Yes, Florian. It is.

Mmmh, Ronnia by Veronika Burian? The light weight, maybe?

Nope. But it does look similar, I have to admit.

I was going to say Rayuela Blanca or Gris Italic, but on further examination I don’t think that’s it.

Reed, you sure are right about it not being any of the ones you mentioned.
The font you’re looking for isn’t all that exotic - well known designer.

my first guess would have been gaurdi, but now I’m positive it’s not.

It’s a sans, isn’t it?

Yep. It’s a sans.

lola?

or something by fontsmith

not lola.

Nope. The designer is well known.
His goal with this one was to make a ‘fun sans’.

Expo Sans Semibold Italic?

Wow, what a nip-and-tuck race! First I had all my money on Ronnia. Now I thought: Dang, Auricfuzz has snatched it away! But … I think it still is wrong. Next try: FF Megano Italic?

Yes, Florian, that’s the one.

Quote from FontShop Newsletter Nov. 06:
“I wanted to make a ‘fun sans’ like Zuzana Licko’s Triplex.”
Xavier Dupré

Your turn.

Oh, and I was already celebrating :-( . Something about chickens and counting them, I guess.

Yay! :D
And: sorry, Reed! Try this one:

Is it an f?

Nope, sorry. But it is a lowercase Latin letter.

‘i’ or ‘j’?

Yes, it’s the ‘i’!
Zooming out a little bit:

OK. I know what it is. Can’t participate, though.
Not easy for non-Germans.

OK. I know what it is.
Hehe! I knew it wouldn’t take you long, and I wouldn’t need to show a lot of the letter(s). Clever micro-branding, isn’t it?

Can’t participate, though.
Drat! What a pity.

Not easy for non-Germans.
Do you think so? I really don’t know. The typeface has been co-designed by an American, and some weights of it have been drawn by yet another Yankee. ;-)

Yeah, but you don’t see it in use outside of Germany basically.
Wasn’t that one Yankee originally German?

Deutsche Bahn Sans Italic?

Hooray, this time you can count your chicken, Reed!

It’s DB Head Black Italic, to be precise.

you don’t see it in use outside of Germany basically.
True. But you don’t have to live in Germany in order to see it. Paying a visit (or, even, travel through) by train will suffice – it’s the (rather) new corporate typeface for Deutsche Bahn, the national railway corporation.

Wasn’t that one Yankee originally German?
I don’t know? Christian Schwartz has a Germanic sounding name, and he once interned in Berlin, working for/with Erik Spiekermann, but that’s all, afaik.

Your – hard-earned – turn, Reed.

Hooray! I don’t think it was that hard-earned, though, Florian - I haven’t been working on nearly as many of the past ones as have others.

I had only known of the DB type system through Christian Schwartz’s website, but then I was lucky enough to see it in print (I think in Die Zeit magazine). It’s really terrific (and I don’t usually like Jannon Garamonds) - that funky “r” in the sans is the best.

I’ll be back with a new challenge soon.

Here it is.

’f’?

- Lex

Yes!!! I thought for sure the identity of this glyph would be more difficult — I guess this is Expert Level for a reason.

Here’s another view, same magnification:

By the way, this “f” is an alternate; the standard “f” in the typeface is much more conventional.

Think it’s time for a clue. This typeface and another were given away for free, but the designer recently put out his first non-free face.

Another clue: This typeface was done by a Typophile member. He’s pretty active, posting as recently as yesterday. And he blogs on type design.

Something from Juan Pablo De Gregorio?

Yes! Quick, find it before someone else swoops in!

Romeral?

¡Felicitaciones, Marcelo! Yes, it is Romeral by Juan Pablo de Gregorio over at Letritas, which is now celebrating its two-year anniversary.

This glyph is the really funky alternate “f” (which interestingly looks very similar to the alternate “t”), also found in his new award-winning commercial release Los Niches.

Maybe Lex knew the answer and refrained from saying, since a search for Romeral on Typophile after I posted turned up he posted the inline version almost exactly one year ago on this Expert Type Quiz. If he did know, I’m glad he let someone else figure it out, though I’m sorry that I deprived him the opportunity to participate fully. I do recommend to those following me that they do a quick Google search to make sure that this doesn’t happen to them – though it turned out well enough in the end.

Your turn!

Actually I didn’t know that there were alternates! Great job Marcelo.

- Lex

Gracias Reed! Gracias Lex!

here we go:

Œ?

ha! that was easy, right?
Yes Jan it’s Œ

Thought it might have been Balloon, but it’s not quite a match.

- Lex

Wow! Lex, Balloon is close but I’m afraid it’s not.

Same glyph, same scale.
Enjoy!

Psst, psst… it’s from a script family!

I know it’s script family, but this glyph reminds me Crillee typeface.

Yes indeed Andre.

If I ever use this font, I would use it in a dessert packaging.

FF Jambono Medium?

Mikey :-)

I’m afraid not, Mikey, but you are almost there :)

Tartine Script by Xavier Dupré (like Jambono), I’d say the black weight.

???

Congratulations Jan!
Is FF Tartine Script Black by Xavier Dupré who also designed Jambono ;^)

Quote from the PDF found in The FontFeed on April 01, 2008:
“The creamy shapes of FF Tartine Script match very well with any food product, cheese, yoghurts, desserts etc.”
Xavier Dupré

Your turn Jan!

D’oh! I even had checked out Tartine, but as the regular Œ is completely different (O with inward curl, round E), I didn’t dig any deeper into its other weights. Why can’t designers just use simple MM interpolations? :-} ;-p
That will teach me …

Good find, Jan! Nice challenge, Marcelo!

No magic involved. ‘Not Jambono but almost there and a script’ made me suspect Xavier Dupré to be the designer. Searching for ‘Dupré and script’ at MyFonts brings up two results, one being Jambono ...

New challenge. Here we go:

Okaaay, let’s get this started: Is it a capital Latin letter?