The Font Game « lying for a living

The Font Game

For typeface addicts, word nuts, and trivia obsessives.

Categories: Word Games · Writing

Nancy // April 15, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Cool game, Meg. I did terrible!

I guess I’m too used to looking at the font preview text instead of the name when selecting a font to use.
Dan // April 15, 2008 at 3:18 pm

Difficult indeed.. I scored a 17/34 and most of those were lucky guesses.
susan // April 15, 2008 at 5:47 pm

24. I am astonished. Okay, I recognised only about 3; the rest I figured out (e.g., italic) or took a wild guess at matching style with name.

Or should I just admit I need to get out more.
Patti // April 15, 2008 at 6:17 pm

16–youch–by pretty much the same method as Susan.
Meg // April 16, 2008 at 6:17 am

24. Like Susan and Patti, I tried to guess via the name (italic, sans).

Who are those people in the hall of fame? 34/34?
Kari Pätilä // April 16, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Meg, those 34/34 types are the ones who really know their business. Or, more likely, those who know how to hack an online form before submitting it…
The Husband // April 16, 2008 at 12:53 pm

18/34 - Most of which I guessed.
Ken // April 16, 2008 at 9:18 pm

I refuse to divulge my score on account it may be used against me in the future.
djpaterson // April 16, 2008 at 11:17 pm

21/34 - and on a couple of occasions I almost started arguing with the computer. That’s worrying!