I chose to play three typography games to practice my font-choosing skillz. 1) Type War: I think I literally always choose in between five fonts for all of my assignments. When I find one that I like, I usually stick with it. Type War makes you pick the right one out of two, sometimes very similar fonts. […]
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Typography Games
I began playing Shoot the Serif which I was pretty good at, if i do say so myself. Luckily my grandpa – a professor at the University of Tulsa – explained to me a few years ago what a serif font was. I asked him to look over a presentation I made for a high school class, and he explained to me he didn’t like my powerpoint because i used a serif font. He went on to explain the difference between a serif font and a non-serif font to me. Armed with that knowledge, I was able to accurately eliminate all the serif fonts in this game.
Next I tried Type Connection and I’ll be honest, I think I really missed the purpose of this particular game. I was playing matchmaker and paired up Univers with Maple – a perfect match in my humble opinion – but the game eagerly told me how wrong I was. I decided that I didn’t agree with their logic so I moved on to the next game.
I moved on to Type War (because I couldn’t get Poster Letters to launch). I was really struggling at the beginning. I don’t think I got one answer correct, so I went back and read the explanation of the game on canvas and saw the hint to pull up Word. With Word by my side I fared much better.
As much as I enjoy playing around with fonts, I think I’ll stick to non-typography based games when I’m looking for entertainment. I will say, however, that it was great practice in seeing the subtleties between various fonts.
Typography Games
For this blog post, we played several different typography games.My personal favorite was Shoot the Serif where we were challenged to choose serif fonts out of a sea of non-serif fonts. I thought this was a fun game because it challenged you to quickly choose and was upbeat. Next, I played Type War where we …
Typography
Type Connection, Type War, and Kern Type are games and quizzes designed to give you practice with different typography. Type Connection is a fun game where you get to choose a font as the “main character” that best describes you. You pick different options about your work ethic and ideal date match. At the end these […]
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Fun With Typography
Typography is such an odd word. Honestly before this week, I had no idea what it was. Typography is the style of printed font. It is an art of arranging letters. My professor introduced the topic by offering several games that helped us learn a little bit more about the topic. First of I started [Continue]
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