Typophile / Projects / Type Battles

Typophile has a lot of opinions. With type battles the work speaks for itself. These short (they start Monday and end on Friday) competitions require Typophiles to jump in quickly and throw down their best skills. As with any street battle, there is no panel of judges and no prize — only the ability to call yourself the best on the block.

// RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Each game kicks off on Monday with a new challenge, and closes at midnight PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.

Winner take all, no holds barred. May be the best designer win.

// REQUIREMENTS

- Image size: 600 width x 400 height. 72 dpi
- Color: Black and white only (unless specific battles call for otherwise)
- Format: Please save your graphics as PNG
- Only respond with the characters posted in the challenge (unless a specific battle calls for otherwise)

// BATTLE HISTORY

Battle 2 - Design 2 swash characters for Franklin Gothic
Battle 3 - Triline pixel font
Battle 4 - Design two ligatures for Cooper Black
Battle 5 - MICR type
Battle 6 - Extending found type
Battle 7 - Create a Hobo script
Battle 8 - Faux 3D, drawn by hand only
Battle 9 - Design 3 new characters for the alphabet
Battle 10 - S Mayhem
Battle 11 - S Mayhem II
Battle 12 - Quick lower case alphabet
Battle 13 - Pointing hand dingbat
Battle 14 - Draw 3 alternate ampersands
Battle 15 - Lowercase serif italic
Battle 16 - Heavy letter, phat face
Battle 17 - Stencil font
Battle 18 - Cut paper
Battle 19 - Pumpkin Carving
Battle 20 - Album Cover Meme
Battle 21 - FontStruct
Battle 22 - Epigraphy
Battle 23 - Typographic Love Child: Garamond and Zebrawood