This is how it works:
- A portion of a glyph is published in the Type ID Pop Quiz.
- Try to identify the glyph and the typeface. To win, you need to name at least:
- typeface
- weight
- character/glyph
- 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 portion of a 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 or Intermediary Level Type ID Pop Quiz first.
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.
16 Nov 2009 — 9:09pm
Zoomed out a little bit.
19 Nov 2009 — 2:22am
O.K. Here is another glyph:
21 Nov 2009 — 3:11pm
It’s Finura from DSType? The LA ligature and the lowercase a.
Mikey :-)
22 Nov 2009 — 1:42am
Strangely enough I checked Finura, but somehow didn't see the 'LA' lig.
- Lex
22 Nov 2009 — 7:36pm
Glyph 623:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/dstype/finura/roman/characters.html
23 Nov 2009 — 10:52pm
Hi, Mike and Lex.
Mike, yes, you’re totally correct. It’s Finura designed by Dino dos Santos. The first one is the LA ligature and the second one is the a.
Your turn now. :)
BTW, Mike, AXIS Latin was released, as I wrote it on your blog on typophile.
24 Nov 2009 — 12:56pm
Cool beans! I happen to love that Finura too!
Sorry for not getting back to you soon enough about Axis. I will write something about it shortly.
Here is one of my favorite fonts in the world!—because it’s so well done and not on everyone’s mind.
Mikey :-)
24 Nov 2009 — 8:10pm
This looks like a lowercase a, but could be a ton of different ones.
24 Nov 2009 — 8:27pm
It's pretty darn close to AT Our Bodoni
24 Nov 2009 — 9:51pm
It is a lowercase a, but not AT Our Bodoni.
Think tougher than Bodoni.
24 Nov 2009 — 10:04pm
Has it been rotated?
25 Nov 2009 — 11:07am
How about Farao by Storm?
25 Nov 2009 — 11:08am
no to both of those
Farao would be a wild interpretation
30 Nov 2009 — 2:01am
a wild interpretation... of the genre
8 Dec 2009 — 11:50am
for the most part this font is off the commercial radar
15 Dec 2009 — 1:52pm
another glyph
21 Jan 2010 — 1:55pm
actually I meant to say the above image is a different view of the same glyph,
but anyway...
here is yet another view of the same glyph:
Mikey :-)
27 Jan 2010 — 11:09am
Darn, this is is difficult. It isn't drawn by Christian Schwartz, is it?
27 Jan 2010 — 9:34pm
Hello Satyagraha!
It wasn’t designed by Christian Schwartz. Perhaps you were thinking of Farnham? It does seem to borrow Fleischman details in the terminals.
This genre of typeface is designed for worst case printing scenarios, however in this particular instance it’s biased towards display work although you could use it very successfully at small sizes.
It was designed by one of the world’s most important living designers. The designer set a portion of his book in this face.
Mikey :-)
31 Jan 2010 — 4:30pm
Okay here it is...
18 Mar 2010 — 1:31am
You can find this font in a series of specimen books regarding independent type designers.
19 Mar 2010 — 11:53am
Near to Clarendon Light, but not that one.
20 Mar 2010 — 1:45am
The very famous designer when asked the extent of the typeface’s kerning tables, the designer said he didn’t know—“in that ***** face but there there are a hell of a lot".
Clarendon would be a member of the same genre.
22 Mar 2010 — 10:46pm
Ionic by Matthew Carter? The quote leads to The art of Matthew Carter: typographically speaking but the Ionic font looks different to me and it says is by Vincent Figgins... not Carter? hmmm, I'm making a mess here!
22 Mar 2010 — 10:44pm
Wait... In this case ionic refers to the genre, right? so it's an ionic typeface by Carter... but not Figgins Ionic published by Monotype.
22 Mar 2010 — 11:05pm
I'm confused. I don't know what is it.
23 Mar 2010 — 12:56am
FINALLY!!!!
Let’s all give Plumbago a big round of applause for getting this one!
:-)
The name of this gem is Ionic by Matthew Carter from Carter and Cone—one of very few “speculative” typefaces Mr.Carter designs.
This is my most favorite Clarendon in the world. Other interpretations look blurred by comparision—this one sparkles! It can work well at very small sizes, although Ionic’s details, texture, and contrast make this typeface a pleasure to work with at display sizes.
Ionics (a sub-genre of Clarendon if I’m not mistaken) are also the newspaper form of Clarendon—very short ascenders and descenders.
Ionic is the Matthew Carter’s book and in the Indie Fonts specimen book Volume One (red cover).
I can attest it is in fact very well kerned.
Plumbago it’s your well deserved turn.
Mikey :-)
23 Mar 2010 — 9:02am
Well, well, well... thanks Mikey.
Here we go again!
Have fun!
23 Mar 2010 — 10:41am
It reminds me of Coquette...
23 Mar 2010 — 10:52am
Sometimes First impressions are right...
23 Mar 2010 — 11:19am
I think Riccardo nailed it: Coquette Regular. A whimsical script by Mark Simonson, isn't it?
23 Mar 2010 — 6:43pm
Nice!
Your turn Riccardo!
24 Mar 2010 — 2:26am
Ops! I wasn't ready :-)
Thanks, Marcelo.
I'll come up with something shortly.
And thanks John for filling up the details for me! ;-)
28 Mar 2010 — 11:25am
Eventually, here it is:
28 Mar 2010 — 5:29pm
z?
29 Mar 2010 — 1:04am
Lower case zed, yes.
31 Mar 2010 — 4:51am
Plume Regular?
31 Mar 2010 — 5:55am
Kudos to Nick Cooke!
It would be Plume Regular by Dalton Maag:
http://www.daltonmaag.com/browse/fonts/dama/plume
(Although, technically, it is Steinem, widely regarded as a rip-off of Plume. Confusingly enough, Identifont gives 2006 as a date for Plume, while Steinem sports a 2001 creation date)
Please, Nick, your turn.
11 Apr 2010 — 5:46am
Sorry for the delay - I had forgotten about it!
Try this:
14 Apr 2010 — 1:36am
the inner shape reminds me of Facit
14 Apr 2010 — 5:44am
It isn't though.
14 Apr 2010 — 5:54am
Is this a /p/?
14 Apr 2010 — 6:59am
I would say it's a k.
14 Apr 2010 — 7:02am
No and no.
14 Apr 2010 — 7:18am
b? Lucida Sans Narrow Demi Italic?
14 Apr 2010 — 11:38am
Yes and no.
14 Apr 2010 — 6:51pm
Augustin Bold Italic?
15 Apr 2010 — 12:49am
No.
26 Apr 2010 — 3:25am
Hello? anybody out there?
OK, here's another view at the same size.
27 Apr 2010 — 6:57pm
Chapparal Bold Italic?