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>>> Type ID Pop Quiz V2.4 - Intermediate Level
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21 Jul 2008 — 7:04am
21 Jul 2008 — 7:04am
This is how it works:
- A complete glyph is published in the Type ID Pop Quiz.
- Try to identify the typeface. To win, you need to name both the typeface and the weight.
- 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 complete glyph, black on white background, presented in a 288 x 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, I 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 first. Too easy? Go to the Expert Level Type ID Pop Quiz.
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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2 Oct 2009 — 2:56pm
Kickass font. Yeah, I love it. New challenge up soon.
2 Oct 2009 — 3:46pm
Here we go:
20 Oct 2009 — 1:04pm
The designer describes the origin of his typefaces as “combining traditional drawing values with the computer’s mastery of geometric form.”
20 Oct 2009 — 2:53pm
Harbour Medium, from Alias Collection.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-alias/harbour/
20 Oct 2009 — 4:27pm
Correct Riccardo. Your turn.
21 Oct 2009 — 3:27am
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.
21 Oct 2009 — 12:57pm
Here it is!
24 Oct 2009 — 9:41am
U+2113, right?
24 Oct 2009 — 10:18am
Well, yes, it is a "script small l"...
24 Oct 2009 — 10:26am
I thought it was Moped Sans, but no.
24 Oct 2009 — 11:52am
Nothing that fancy, alas...
31 Oct 2009 — 10:41am
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.
2 Nov 2009 — 1:41pm
Oh, well, there's always someone that kill a thread off. It seems that today it's my turn… ;-)
19 Nov 2009 — 10:22am
Here's a little bump:
It's a wood type from 1830.
19 Nov 2009 — 11:15am
Is it Poplar—glyph 157? The ℓ would have been glyph 250.
19 Nov 2009 — 12:48pm
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.
20 Nov 2009 — 9:36am
Thank you, Riccardo. Here we go.
23 Nov 2009 — 7:17am
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.
23 Nov 2009 — 8:16am
It's a Q, I suppose.
24 Nov 2009 — 9:35am
A lowercase g.
24 Nov 2009 — 2:20pm
Sorry! A typo. It's a lowercase q.
25 Nov 2009 — 8:48am
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:
26 Nov 2009 — 7:07am
The type designer in question has a background in sign making and tests his typefaces on a plotter to avoid problems at the vinyl cutting stage.
30 Nov 2009 — 7:42am
The studio is in Fort Worth, Texas.
30 Nov 2009 — 8:47am
Ah, it's Harliquin (sic). (Which I only got by googling...)
30 Nov 2009 — 9:02am
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…
30 Nov 2009 — 9:08am
Here goes:
5 Jan 2010 — 2:44am
Cap X, Englische Schreibschrift from Berthold?
5 Jan 2010 — 12:34pm
Exactly right, barthak!
7 Jan 2010 — 2:41am
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.
7 Jan 2010 — 3:05am
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