Typography Games

In order to practice my typography skills, I played all the typography games that Professor Croom recommended to the class! I thought that this was a fun way of learning the difference between serif and sans serif, fonts and spacing. Here is a little bit more about my three favorite games:

• Shoot the serif: This was probably the game where I became most competitive because of the time constraint! You had to shoot the serif font letter and could move up different levels if you shot all the serif letters in the right amount of time. I didn’t make it very high in the levels because the pressure probably got to me, but it was a good way of getting acquainted to the typography and learning the differences between serif and sans serif- one of the most important typography skills. Below is the highest level I got to before I moved on to the next game.

• Type War: Type War was a more relaxed way to spot the differences between two fonts. There was no required time to answer in, which made it easier to really analyze the letters and choose the correct font. Toward the end of the game (Level 10) I felt like I had a good grasp on knowing Garamond from Futura, Times New Roman from Didot and so on.

 

• Kern Type: Overall, I enjoyed this game the most. I did not realize how important spacing was to make or break a certain font. I kept trying to get 100/100 for each word! Luckily, the two bookend letters were stuck in place so it wasn’t as difficult to spread out the other letters in the word. I got some great scores and some not so great scores (which are shown below, along with my overall score the first time I played)…but I grasped the concept pretty early on, which is good!

  

  

  

  

Since I didn’t know much about typography before, I liked playing these games so I could learn about the skills in an interesting format. As I am crafting my publications in the future, I will be sure to utilize what I have learned through all of the games because they each have a valuable lesson!