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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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28 Oct 2008 — 4:51pm
That looks very Zapfy, so it must be Palatino Bold ;-)
29 Oct 2008 — 5:03am
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!
29 Oct 2008 — 5:46am
Hi Florian,
nice info! I wonder why Hermann decided as such.
New challenge coming up! I'm not that much of a type guru, but I'll see what I can do :-)
29 Oct 2008 — 6:00am
Here it is!
Apparently, one of the designers originated in Industrial Design and developed an interest in typography, like me! ;-)
29 Oct 2008 — 10:14am
I think it's Bree Regular by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione.
29 Oct 2008 — 10:26am
Your thinking is correct ;-)
Take it away!
29 Oct 2008 — 10:56am
Thanks!
Here is the next one:
Have fun!
29 Oct 2008 — 5:21pm
Ooh, I know this one, but I'm not allowed to say anything :'-(
2 Nov 2008 — 5:10pm
What would Hercule Poirot say if he sees a mysterious clue written with this typeface?
8 Nov 2008 — 5:42am
Well… the name of the font is certainly french but the foundry is from the U.S.
10 Nov 2008 — 1:28am
MVB Sacre Bleu designed by Mark van Bronkhorst?
10 Nov 2008 — 10:17am
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!
10 Nov 2008 — 7:06pm
Thank you, Marcelo. :)
Here is the next one:
17 Nov 2008 — 1:24am
Another glyph of the same font:
19 Nov 2008 — 8:18pm
Another hint:
The designer was involved in a work of a font from House Industries. While the original drawing of the font was from another person, the designer drew the Central European characters and ligatures and defined the spacing and kerning.
20 Nov 2008 — 4:54pm
Found it! Rumba Small by Laura Meseguer?
20 Nov 2008 — 5:20pm
Yes! Bart, you’re right.
It’s Rumba Small designed by Laura Meseguer. She designed Rumba, which is her final project for the postgraduate course that she took at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague KABK, in Holland.
And she drew the CE characters and ligatures of Holiday Sans and defined the spacing and kerning of it.
Well done. Your turn now.
20 Nov 2008 — 5:29pm
Great!
Here it is:
23 Nov 2008 — 6:44am
I'll post another glyph on monday.
For now I'll say that the serifs remind me of a type of stone used on small roads in the country of the type foundry where this font is published.
24 Nov 2008 — 11:38am
Same font, other glyph:
25 Nov 2008 — 3:16am
The designer is Dutch and also attended the post-graduate course Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague - and is a member here on Typophile.
25 Nov 2008 — 4:46pm
Hi Bart,
it’s Parry Normal from OurType, designed by Artur Schmal.
26 Nov 2008 — 4:00am
Well done Jan, you are correct!
Your turn :)
27 Nov 2008 — 12:20pm
New challenge up:
27 Nov 2008 — 12:32pm
Could this be the work of a fellow typophile?
27 Nov 2008 — 12:39pm
Oh no. Florian again.
Has just been waiting for me to come up with a challenge ;-)
Yes. Fellow typophile indeed.
28 Nov 2008 — 12:28pm
Well …
is it Preface – the curvaceous sans by Nick Shinn that does without diagonals?
;-)
28 Nov 2008 — 12:42pm
... 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.
30 Nov 2008 — 3:12am
Thanks!
Here’s the new one:
30 Nov 2008 — 3:54am
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.
30 Nov 2008 — 8:07am
Wow, Nina, that was a fast one! :D
Absolutely correct. Congratulations, it’s your turn!
30 Nov 2008 — 8:25am
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 :)
1 Dec 2008 — 1:57pm
Hmm, maybe time for a little hint, I'm beginning to think this may have been a really obscure one. So, the font in question was designed by somebody with whom I share part of my name. And this glyph actually appears in the name of the font.
1 Dec 2008 — 2:13pm
Ha! Found it.
It’s the tz-ligature from Mein Schatz, designed by Nina Hons.
1 Dec 2008 — 2:35pm
Wow … that was quick :)
Congrats. That's extremely correct, except that the weight is missing – but I'll assume you'd spot that anyway ;). Your turn!
8 Dec 2008 — 12:10pm
New challenge up:
8 Dec 2008 — 2:28pm
Huhu Jan! :D
Could this be the bold italic ‘y’ from Veronika Burian’s beautiful Maiola?
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8 Dec 2008 — 3:00pm
Aaaargh ... FLORIAN. Yyessssss. Corrrrrrect.
8 Dec 2008 — 3:41pm
Well, what can I say? Sorry Jan! ;^)
I have purchased Maiola earlier this year, so the challenge was not that hard.
Here’s the new one:
19 Dec 2008 — 9:21am
You might already have guessed it:
This glpyh is not a trebuchet on wheels, but rather a per mille sign (‰).
30 Dec 2008 — 6:09am
No guesses? This is from a 4-styles type family with a wide language support, including Greek and Cyrillic script.
2 Jan 2009 — 12:24pm
There’s a certain reason why this per mille sign looks different from others …
2 Jan 2009 — 12:47pm
Yeah, it looks pretty funny. :) Is it from a monospaced font?
2 Jan 2009 — 1:02pm
Yes, Nina, that’s correct!
Here’s another glyph from this font. Same style, smaller scale:
2 Jan 2009 — 1:22pm
Is this a Luc de Groot font?
2 Jan 2009 — 1:37pm
Yes! Now let’s swap quizes! :D
2 Jan 2009 — 1:42pm
Ha! It's the per mille sign from Consolas Regular, designed by Luc(as) de Groot for Microsoft. Am I late?
EDIT: Italic of course, not Regular. Ouch.
2 Jan 2009 — 2:37pm
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!
2 Jan 2009 — 2:43pm
Yes, Nina, 1000‰ correct!
Haha. Cool!
Did you know that Consolas comes with a number of alternates for some lowercase characters?
Wow. I didn't know that, although I guess something like that is bound to happen when Luc(as) 'Gazillions Of Weights' de Groot is limited to four styles only. ;-) That alternate 'r' in your lower line is pretty, uh, expressive for Consolas!
Looking for a pretty glyph now … will post the new sample shortly.
2 Jan 2009 — 2:59pm
Here's a new one for your collective amusement (: