Fontopoly / Type Trumps / The Font Game

Fontopoly / Type Trumps / The Font Game

Ought to have been Typopoly. From timbasmits.com. 'PROJECT / FONTOPOLY & MR FONOTOPOLY CHARACTER DESIGN FOR "GO FONT YOURSELF" EXHIBITION'

Timba Smits, a London-based graphic designer from Melbourne, Australia, created this lovely poster called Fontopoly. This looks like a fun game, although like most of these type projects, I'm sure helvetica wasn't there, and arial. Found on armina_79 Twitter There was this I saw recently too, the fontgame.ilovetypography.com & Type Trumps over at Face37.com
'After the hugely successful Type Trumps comes the much awaited sequel — Type Trumps 2 — 30 new designs showing different typefaces being assigned numerical values. Type Trumps, a play on Top Trumps, uses figures to enable the cards to be won or lost using some of the tried and tested 'Top Trumps' rules. The Type Trumps have a 'ranking', which is a subjectively ascribed positional value based on my personal favourites'

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Published on 2010/04/15 4:26 pm.
Filed under: font, games, type, typographic Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Shape My Language

6c83d7c0475470eeb82bd46306b00529 Shape My Language

Love this! Every student, designer, person has to have the ability to immerse themselves in type physically rather than just mentally. .

. I feel sorry for the characters at the top of these 26 strings with over 4,000 floating letters. Please, please say you can buy this as blinds in your window. Would be very much frowned upon by my partner but she can lump it, how cool! Bring it to the UK, fonts definitely Shape our western Langauge, but this would shape our experience of it. . . www.daltonmaag.com . 05.03. – 12.06.2010 Thankyou Bruno . http://www.walking-chair.com/ . found in creative review april 2010, btw... I dont like the 3d, sans serif, drop caps. But the grey is good, the Caslon revamp and the general overall redesign, 1 thumb up ;o).

Published on 2010/03/30 11:29 pm.
Filed under: design, engagement, font, interactive, landscapes, language, type, typographic Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Periodic table of Typefaces

Periodic table of Typefaces


Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces cameron wilde

absolutely brilliant. ok the classifying isn't perfect but the execution is
top notch. they're must know fonts for designers from gunter gerhard ith akidenz
grotesk, goudy, cassandre, baskerville, tshichold, benton, renner... and... the
dates they were created.

when i did the periodic table of design and when i did type timeline... i
thought that there had to be one made for typefaces. it has gratefully been
fulfilled in excellant style.

love it, enjoy it, share it.

see more periodic table subversions here: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/main/search/search?q=periodic+table
quite a few.

also i'm included there: http://visualthinkmap.ning.com/photo/photo/show?id=2168552%3APhoto%3A1119
/ http://visualthinkmap.blogspot.com/2008/08/periodic-table-of-design.html

from: via @azaaza: Periodic table of Typefaces: http://tinyurl.com/ar8cz7

you might like: Type Timeline Half 1


found: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InformationArchitectsJapan/~3/fVfaDMMDBv8/

Published on 2009/03/21 3:10 am.
Filed under: clean, clear, composition, design, font, hierachy, information, periodic, simon patterson, swiss, type, typographic, visual thinking, white space