Typography

After learning what typography is and finding out how critical it is in this week’s lesson, I was then encouraged to play three games relating to typography.

The first game I played was Shoot the Serif. I started out at the junior level since I did not know what to expect for this game. I’ve always heard of serif and sans serif fonts, but if you were to ask me to identify the difference between the two, I would most likely start playing the guessing game, which is how I began this game until I got the hang of it. The first time I played, I started off strong, but ended with a score of -5…I continued to play this game until I got a score of 25. Now if you were to ask me the difference between serif and sans serif font, I could easily identify the two.

Next, I played Poster Letters. Being the movie fanatic that I am, I would have to agree with Professor Croom when I thought that I would know more of these movie posters than I actually did. It was hard to base some of these movies off of one single letter, where as some were no problem at all to determine. I only ended up answering 12 correctly, which definitely made me question if I really was a movie fanatic or not.

Finally, I chose to play Type War. I realized immediately after beginning this game, that the only font I really knew how to identify from the rest was Times New Roman. This is probably because I am so used to using this font for most of my assignments that I have to do for my classes. I was able to learn how to tell the difference between other fonts after playing a few rounds of this game.

Overall, I found each of these games helpful in learning the importance of typography and how it is used in telling stories.