Typophile

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This is how it works:

  • A portion of a glyph is published in the Type ID Pop Quiz.
  • Try to identify the glyph and the typeface. To win, you need to name at least:
    1. typeface

    2. weight
    3. character/glyph
  • Show off your knowledge by casually mentioning additional trivia, like who designed it, when and by whom was it (first) published, and other cool stuff to impress your fellow Typophiles with.
  • The winner produces a new challenge — a portion of a glyph, black on white background, presented in a 288 x 288 pixel square, including a R204G000B00 1 pixel border.
  • The person who posts a challenge can’t win the next game.

In case of any disputes, I will act as judge, jury and avenging angel of wrath.

If you think this is a little too difficult, maybe try the Entry Level Type ID Pop Quiz or Intermediary Level Type ID Pop Quiz first.

Good luck everyone, and have fun. ;^)

With respectful thanks to the originator of this utterly useless but highly entertaining waste of time, the often imitated but never duplicated Cheshire Dave.

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Continued from here — at almost 200 comments the previous incarnation was getting a little unwieldy. Here’s a new challenge. You know the drill. ;^)

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Is this an ezsett?

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Nope.

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Stefan Kjartansson and RXC’s Armchair Modern. The character is a lowercase ‘B’ in what I believe is the C Gauge weight.

Stefan’s excellent photography — including images of the furniture design that inspired Armchair Modern — can be found on Flickr.

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Well close that box and call it shipped.

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Shoulda guessed Psyops. :^P Yvesie’s go to foundry.

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Aw, am I that obvious? :^P

Expert Level Pop Quiz back on track. You’re up, Stephen! :^)

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Just joshing. ;^)

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Where’s Stephen?

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I’ll go get ‘im. ;^)

New challenge tonight at the latest.

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Is the quiz is passing out? :^\

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Oops, Stewf still not back! He’s in Berlin now. :^/

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Lissenup, this just became an open call. Anybody wants to post a challenge goes ahead. ;^)

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GO!

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I’m probably rusty, but I’d say it’s a lc “a”. Could be coming from Emigre.

Thanks Tiffany :^)

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Nope and Nope. :^)

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Second guess : caps G

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Yes

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Four days later and no more guesses? Here’s another hint:

Same font, obviously, same point size, new glyph.

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4?

Nick Cooke

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Top of the 4 (osf). And I think I know what it is… Dutch type rules!

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Yep: Versa Sans Normal by Peter Verheul. An OurType(face).

The G reminded me of Quadraat Sans but that wasnt it, so I followed my instinct to see and find out what other more recent faces were done bt Fred Smeijers and friends. Found it on the excellent OurType site.

Versa was on the Our Favorite Fonts of 2004 list of Typographica: http://typographi.com/000969.php

Designer Peter Verheul has a nice site with an overview of his type designs and other work:
http://www.farhill.nl/01_typefaces/index.html
Farhill being a literal translation of his surname into english.

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Good find, Bert. Your turn!

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Give me a couple of hours (and enjoy your turkey’s)…

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Here it is… (I bought this recently, hint!)

Success!

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Q or R caps!

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R is right.

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Luxury Diamond uppercase R from House Industries.

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You the man, DRR… !

(Sorry I’m a bit late with this — Typophile has been ‘out’ a lot today)

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Sorry for the long turn around time. Here it is.

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oups! Is this could be a part of a r, p, n, m or h italic?

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No, but it is italic.

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S? Y?

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No and no.

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I’d say it could be the 2 or the z

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No, the action here is above the baseline.

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X?

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No.

Same glyph but downstairs.

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Could be the f or the y.

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