Best Typography
Games for Designers
What’s your type?
In today’s article, we would like to share with you the best type games out there, that will help you to improve your knowledge about fonts :)
(the rather difficult) Font Game
The rather difficult game is a type game, in which you have to is to identify fonts. Game was made by John Broadley, the author of I love typography.
Kern Type
This game involves your knowledge about kerning and, well, sense of aesthetics. Your mission is to find perfect spaces between letters in order to create pleasurable result.
I shot the Serif
Your task is to shot all the serif fonts on the board at a certain amount of time. You can choose different levels (hard is hard!). Game for fast and furious type of people.
Shape Type
Let’s curve! Our task is to skillfully place Béziers curves in order to match the original letterform.
Font Fox Game
Typographic Game available on App Store, in which we have to guess fonts. The test results can be viewed as an infographic and shared on FB
or Twitter.
Helvetica vs. Arial
Get in the fight and win over Arial!
What type are you?
A short video quiz released by Pentagram, which reveals which typeface
are you.
Type Connection
The game allows you to test your knowledge in combining fonts. Not only the game is very effective visually, but it’s very helpful to master skills of combining fonts.
Rag Time
What’s better than typography and ragtime music? A type game with ragtime music in the background! (Although this is very siubjective opinion.) Rag Time is a game in which we have to create the perfect paragraph in 60 seconds.
The Font is Right
A game in which we need to find a previous chosen fonts on the wheel.
The game showcasts an interesting concept of “spin the wheel”.
Type:Rider
Type: Rider is an attractive video game developed by the studio Ex Nihilo and Arte TV. By crossing the land of typography as two dots, you will get to know the history of type, different periods and printing techniques. Watch the trailer!
Ironic Sans
Can you distinguish Arial and Helvetica? So try this quiz and share your result in the comments :)
Can you name the fonts?
Do you know these fonts? You have 5 minutes to guess 16 of them!
