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Ask any designer what their favorite font is and you’ll get one of several thousand possible answers. Fonts aren’t merely pretty characters on a display; they are an art form. Each font family conveys a particular aesthetic meaning that can make or break any design, if used properly or improperly. In fact, I’ve long suspected the ancient Egyptian civilization was brought down by the creation of Papyrus. The recent appearance of the faux-ancient typeface in the film Avatar as subtitles will surely doom us all — especially if viewed in 3D.
The folks at ILT share our font fixation, and they’ve developed a highly addictive text teaser iPhone game that puts your font knowledge to the test. The Font Game [$0.99, iTunes link] challenges you to identify a series of fonts presented onscreen; you then select one of four possible answers.Be sure to check out our iPhone game review roundup via Joystiq.
Ask any designer what their favorite font is and you’ll get one of several thousand possible answers. Fonts aren’t merely pretty characters on a display; they are an art form. Each font family conveys a particular aesthetic meaning that can make or break any design, if used properly or improperly. In fact, I’ve long suspected the ancient Egyptian civilization was brought down by the creation of Papyrus. The recent appearance of the faux-ancient typeface in the film Avatar as subtitles will surely doom us all — especially if viewed in 3D.
The folks at ILT share our font fixation, and they’ve developed a highly addictive text teaser iPhone game that puts your font knowledge to the test. The Font Game [$0.99, iTunes link] challenges you to identify a series of fonts presented onscreen; you then select one of four possible answers.
TUAWThe Font Game for iPhone is fontastic fun originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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