Thought it might be Candice, but it is Motter Femina's Latin Small Letter F With Hook (is there a better name for this character?).
Designed by Othmar Motter and exists in one weight only.

Hej Seb,
absolutely right! :)
Nothing to add but a link to a thread about the florin: http://www.typophile.com/node/13226
Your turn!
F

Could this be Mixage EF Black by Elsner & Flake?

Well, I was gosh darn close! Now to find a good one for the next challenge...

Hmm. A clue perhaps?

The roman of this font (this is the italic, book italic rather) was a 90's revision of the work of Lucian Bernhard.

I lovelovelove this font.

Right on! Perhaps because my name starts with "k", I am partial to fonts with an interesting "k". Vibertus is next on my purchase list for this very reason. Your go!

Marcelo, how about a little hint?

Ah thanks! So this must be the nice 'ffi' ligature in Phill Grimshaw's ITC Klepto.

Okay, und noch einmal!

Well Naoise, you are spot on! It surely is a beautiful face, just begging for an opportunity to show itself.

...and glad I could help in improving your day, it's your turn now and I am looking forward to it.

I think it's NB Grotesk 65 — Halbfett by Stefan Gandl.

hello, i'd love to know which type this is!
can anybody name it?
thank you

Here we are.

It is indeed, congrats!

Well, it’s not Cadena Black.

Yes, Sebastian, you’re right. It’s Barricada.
Your turn now.

Seems like it is time for a little hint. This is the section sign from a typeface that was among the winners of the 2003 Type Directors Club Competition.

Well done, Craig! Now it's your turn.

Hint: a 1930s design, redrawn by ITC.

Is this small-x-height font just a ♬ cold and lonely, lovely work of art ♪ for the rest of you?

Bingo, smongey! You're up again.

The hint was in my initial comment.

Afraid not?

This typeface was designed in 2003 and then got a facelift in 2006. I can also say that it has 7 weights with small caps and italics complementing each weight.

Well done!

Perhaps this one was a little abstract. It took a good while to crack.

Sorry for holding things up.

Sorry for the delay, I was in Amsterdam for the weekend and couldn't put up an image!

*sorry, meant to say I can't win this one.

Hey Robert,
do you like to start another challenge?
Thanks,
F

Hey Guys, sorry I was away trying to get a job… Ha! I thought Sean would have just stuck up another one! I'll put up another one now sorry… Oh while I'm here anyone need a graphic designer! ha!

Hi Robbie,

is it the G of Fontbureau’s Hermes, the more rational variant of Heinz Hoffmann’s Block?

Good luck with finding a nice job!
F

Yay! :-D
Okeee, let’s see how long this one will take you. No hints for now.
Have fun!

Hehe … :-D
Not a vector illustration. Not a free font.

Hi Tiffany,
lowercase: yes, ‘i’: no.
F

Not a blackletter font, not an ‘e’.

The letter is from the Italics – which are part of a large (and growing) family.

Not a ‘z’ either, sorry.

This typeface family is made in the Netherlands.

Hi Craig,
no, not a dotless ‘i’.

This letter is not made for the Netherlands.

Way less obscure, believe me! :^D

Hi Katharina,
not an ‘x’, sorry.

Quite a number of fellow typophiles might have become acquainted with this character only two weeks ago (though not with this very glyph, necessarily).

That’s right! It’s an Cyrillic lowercase letter Ge (or Ghe), italic style: г

Now you only have to hunt down the grand typeface! :—)

Not Freight. But you are right, it is a display cut of a greater family that started out with regular cuts for text sizes. The typeface in question is even younger than Freight.

Come on now, folks! I know there are a lot of type designers in the Netherlands – but not all of them do Cyrillics, do they?

Yes, Marcelo! It is Greta Grande (Bold Italic) by Peter Biľak and Nikola Djurek, from Typotheque in The Hague. The Cyrillics were designed by Alexei Kassian and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan.

The four weights are intended for large headlines (above 30pt), and therefore are designed with extreme contrast between the thick and thin, tight spacing and refined details. — typotheque.com

The next addition to the Greta family will be a Greta Mono.

Your turn!

Volupia designed by Dino dos Santos?

You are right Akira!

Your turn :-)

Hi Akira, is this MVB Sirenne Eighteen designed by Alan Dague-Greene?

Thanks Akira,
I'm hoping this will last a little longer then my previous post.
I know it won't!!, enjoy.

T-Star by Michael Mischler?

Hm. In my copy of Los Logos the captions are set in T-Star Mono alright, but the text font isn’t T-Star (but Corporate S, I’d say).

And now the next one

Yes Florian, you are right. Your turn now!

First hint:
It is one of the most widespread typefaces , I guess. Furthermore, this very font enjoys wide distribution aswell.

Be patient, Irène! :-)
Here’s the next little hint:
The glyph is from the bold weight. The regular weight doesn’t have those ‘N’ swashes on this glyph.

Hi Bart,

yes, that is correct; Palatino by Hermann Zapf!
This sample is taken from the Palatino Linotype OpenType version that ships with Microsoft Windows. It comes with a substantial character set, including Greek and Cyrillic, small caps, ligatures and various figures & fractions … and this glyph, the Numero sign (№).
Note the differing design decisions, across the styles. Also interesting: the inconsistent treatment of the serifs and the contrast axis (the letter ‘N’ and the masculine ordinal indicator ‘º’ are shown for comparison below):

Now it’s your turn!

Here it is!

Apparently, one of the designers originated in Industrial Design and developed an interest in typography, like me! ;-)

Your thinking is correct ;-)

Take it away!

Ooh, I know this one, but I'm not allowed to say anything :'-(

Well… the name of the font is certainly french but the foundry is from the U.S.

Yes Akira! you are correct. The phrase sacre bleu! or sacrebleu!, has been popularized by Agatha Christie's Belgian hero Hercule Poirot.
Joshua Lurie-Terrell from Typographica, chose MVB Sacre Bleu as one of the best typefaces of 2007.

Your turn, Akira!

Another glyph of the same font:

Found it! Rumba Small by Laura Meseguer?

Great!

Here it is:

Same font, other glyph:

Hi Bart,
it’s Parry Normal from OurType, designed by Artur Schmal.

New challenge up:

Oh no. Florian again.
Has just been waiting for me to come up with a challenge ;-)

Yes. Fellow typophile indeed.

... more or less without diagonals – yes.

Absolutely correct, Florian.

The only thing I don’t like about it is the round cap ‘E’.
Looks too much like ‘€’ for my taste.

That might just be the Small Cap letter Q from Aller Display, out of the Aller Sans family designed by Dalton Maag for DMJX, which is free to download at their site.

Thanks, Florian! :) I was lucky, I just looked at this specimen a few days ago.

So, here's a new one. I hope it's neither too easy nor too obscure :)

Ha! Found it.
It’s the tz-ligature from Mein Schatz, designed by Nina Hons.

New challenge up:

Aaaargh ... FLORIAN. Yyessssss. Corrrrrrect.

You might already have guessed it:
This glpyh is not a trebuchet on wheels, but rather a per mille sign (‰).

There’s a certain reason why this per mille sign looks different from others …

Yes, Nina, that’s correct!
Here’s another glyph from this font. Same style, smaller scale:

Yes! Now let’s swap quizes! :D

Yes, Nina, 1000‰ correct! Sorry Craig, you’re too late …
It is Consolas, ‘the de facto successor of the ubiquitous Courier’. The second glyph is a long s (ſ), as you might have guessed. I don’t know if there’s a frequent need for that character in programming, but ‘all six Western typefaces in the [ClearType] collection were to be developed […] with the same robust glyph set for all’ — LucasFonts.

Did you know that Consolas comes with a number of alternates for some lowercase characters? There are no less than four variations on the ‘r’ – per style, that is. Switching those alternative forms on can change the look of the typeface quite dramatically – which reminded me of Hypatia Sans, and Nick Shinn’s thoughts about its manifold faces. Alas, unlike Hypatia Sans, Consolas’ alternates aren’t organized via stylistic subsets, thus toggling them is more difficult.

Now it’s your turn, Nina!

Here's a new one for your collective amusement (:

Hmm, a little hint maybe?
The one I posted is not a letter S from an inline font.

Is it a section mark?

Hmm, this is what the S would look like (same font, same scale).
If anyone is still watching this, that is…

Congrats Marcelo! That's 100% correct. (Actually I used Fedra Sans Alt Bold, as I don't have the non-Alt, but I'm pretty sure these particular glyphs are the same.)

And, I'm very sorry about the version problem. It didn't occur to me that there might be different "§" versions floating around… mea culpa.  :-|
Anyway, yes, this is the Typotheque version.

You go!  :-)

hmmm… it seems there's no one interested in the quizes anymore?
Anyway, here a little hint: The designer is a fellow latin american.

A dagger then?

That would be Ale Paul's Candy Script from Sudtipos!

Here it is.

Or maybe even better: old as Der blaue Engel.

You got it, barthak!

This idiosyncratic italic is of French proportions, but its shapes take their cues from the Dutch style.

Absolutely! Well done :)

Ok, here it is:

hint: It was for sale at Garagefonts

A glyph from a (different) typeface designed by the same designer:

Yes, you are right! One of the first designs he made was part of the collection of GarageFonts, but not any more. What was the name of that typeface?
He didn’t design it alone though…

Pieter

Index!

Okay, here goes:

Yes you do, but somebody else must, too!

You got it - that was quick! You're up, barthak.

It's not some obscure bitmap font, it's actually from a respectable Font Foundry.

Is that a fleuron?

>just a kapital letter.

From the roman alphabet?

Absolutely! Great, the quiz finally continues :)

Iowan Old Style Roman? If it is, this was too easy indeed.

Very popular here. I see it all the time, especially in ads.

Michael

@Michael: Okay, I didn’t know. That’s great.
@Miha: No, come on! It’s your turn, if only because of your forthrightness.

This typeface is actually a part of basic superfamily; there is both serif and sans design.

It was made by a very well known company, umh, corporation. It has a specific and in a way limiting purpose, which makes it less known among traditional typographers.

Droid Serif from Ascender Corp.?

Great! Well, here's a new one, another a:

Is it Fabiol Regular by Lazydogs Typefoundry?

Okay! Here's a new one.

Well, that hint was saying too much.
The font is P22 Da Vinci Backwards.
Don’t know the name of the glyph, though.

Oh ok. It’s the lf ligature (fl backwards!).
I’ll come up with something new soon.

I've been staring at this for weeks now. Jan, please post a hint. I keep going back to Zapata Black, willing that top serif to become incised, as on your image. It refuses to comply.

Ooh I know it.

curly brackets

You mean these: { } ?
Oh yeah!

Ohh now I know it too.
So why is nobody solving? Can I say what it is?

Hmok, I'll play nice :o)

(I only didn't say because I'm running the expert quiz at the moment.)

That’s correct, Irène. Your turn.

Here is the next one.

That was fast John!
Yes, it is Faceplate AGauge, by RXC (Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos).
It is your turn now.

Este tipo de letra es hermosa.

You are right, Marcelo. Thanks for not saying the last name, since that is also the name of the typeface.

You are right, Florian! Looking forward to your challenge . . .

I was born in 1966. If this is the typeface I think it is, we're the same age.

Something by Tom Carnase from the 70s?

Not Manhattan... Not Fat Face...

Hey, might this be the [pound sign from Tom Carnase's] elusive ITC Didi?
The font is sometimes referred to as pre-digital, but there seems to have been an Image Club version which however isn't available anymore.

Tom Carnase: ✓
Pound sign: ✓
Elusive: ✓
ITC: ✓
Didi: Nope, sorry.

Do you want to see another glyph?

:-\

I don't know if another glyph would help, since I already can't find this one for the life of me, but yes please :-)

Firenze!!

Thank you, Florian – how lovely :-)

Here's the new glyph:

Oh man, now I didn't even get to use my "more beer!!!" hint.

Your turn! :-)

Here you go. Good luck!

Three wheels on my wagon and I'm still rollin' along...

Nick Cooke

I'm not either, but I have. Yup, pretty strange but I like it.

Nick Cooke

Oh, its the 'hi' from Tiro Typeworks' Plantagenet Cherokee.

And I should have gotten it sooner because someone just posted that alphabet to my current critique thread.

I think this one might be easy:

Yup, it's Snicker by St. Paul, Minnesota's (and Typophile's) own Mark Simonson. It was inspired by lettering he spotted in an old Superman cartoon series.

Your turn plumbago!

Looks a bit like the g in this sketch by a certain Londoner type designer.

Popgod by Rian Hughes, I believe. He was featured in this newsletter, which is where I found his sketch – not for this type but for a logo that he had been working on.

Do you think I should I wait for Marcelo to confirm? I've got a new glyph ready to roll.

OK, then. I'm just using a "2" because it's my second time up to bat here. It's not a hint.

It's Holiday Script from House Industries.

Here's one for you:

Oh, that was too good a hint!

It's ITC Mixage, designed by Aldo Novarese in 1985. Medium weight.

I won't pretend I'm not copy-pasting this from the Linotype site: "Mixage font is the work of Italian designer Aldo Novarese, who cleverly combined the character shapes and proportions like those of Syntax and Antique Olive with the grace and warmth of a calligraphic typeface. Mixage font is a good alternative to more traditional sans serif designs."

Whee!
Here you are, guys:

My tendency appears to be making things too easy. You don't suffer from that habit, do you, Nina? Can you give us a little hint about this curious glyph?

‘x’?

Ha! Found it. It’s the alternate ‘X’ in Kaas by Hugo d’Alte.

Kaas?! That would be another confusing one for Cheese or Font.

Here we go:

Harbour Medium, from Alias Collection.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-alias/harbour/

I have to admit I'm a better googler than I am at identifying typefaces...
Ah, the shame!
I'll post something up as soon as possible.

U+2113, right?

I thought it was Moped Sans, but no.

Ok, then.
It is a ℓ.
It was designed in 1990, but based on a much older specimen.
It's name is somewhat related to London.

Here's a little bump:

Aaaaand we have a winner! :-)

Poplar was designed by Barbara Lind in 1990 for the Adobe Wood Type series from photographs taken by Rob Roy Kelly of the one surviving copy of an 1830 William Leavenworth type specimen book. Leavenworth possessed unusual artistic abilities, and his treatment of the letterform counters as narrow slits made it the only wood type of its kind displayed during the nineteenth century.

Your turn, JL.

I typically give away too much in the hints. I'll try to mend my ways by saying simply that this is not a 2.

A lowercase g.

This is probably where I get carried away and hint too broadly.
If the glyph in question were a lowercase g, it would look like this:

The studio is in Fort Worth, Texas.

Yes, Craig. It is Harliquin by Steve Contreras at Signfonts (Art & Sign Studio). I'm with you on the "sic" — I'd rather see this script named Harlequin. Anyway, your turn…

Cap X, Englische Schreibschrift from Berthold?

Here's a new one, if anyone is still watching this...

The roughness is because I do not own the face ( it's not the cheapest of fonts ) and the website doesn't provide a bigger sample.