Typography History
Name That Font
Technical Typography
Who Shot the Serif
Font Origin by Country
100
Claude Garamond, from this country, was the first to make type available to printers
What is France
100
In 2004, the U.S. State Department parted ways with Courier New, announcing that all official documents would use this font
What is Times New Roman
100
What you might be called if you have an incurable disease, or in typography – the end stroke of a letter that does NOT end with a serif
What is Terminal
100
Many explain a Serif font as “the curly bits at the ends of letters.” What, then, are fonts called without the “curly bits at the end of letters?”
What is Sans-Serif
100
Garamond
What is France
200
John Baskerville introduced the first Transitional Roman type in this century
What is 18th
200
This popular font is also the Latin name for Switzerland
What is Helvetica
200
This typographic structure sounds like a Swedish pop group from the 80s
What is ABA (form)
200
Slab, or Egyptian serif typefaces, emerged in this century
What is 19th
200
Bauhaus
What is Germany
300
It is the country who adopted the Phoenician language and began to develop the true beginnings of our modern alphabet
Greece
300
This font can be found in Eyes Wide Shut posters, on the plaque left on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts, and in the jersey numbers of the Pittsburgh Steelers
What is Futura
300
This letter form design resembles handwriting and denotes angle/slant
What is Italic
300
This is one of the most widespread serif fonts used today
Times New Roman
300
Gill Sans
What is England
400
This computer brand was the first to commercially produce the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) printing method
What is Macintosh
400
Commissioned by IBM, this font was designed for typewriters in 1955
What is Courier New
400
This letterform is drawn by hand. The literal translation is “beautiful writing.”
What is Calligraphy
400
Old Style or humanist typeface dates back to 1465 and is recognized by which one of the following characteristics: limited readability, a diagonal stress, or extremely thin lines
What is Diagonal Stress
400
This new addition, together with the device's accelerometer improves motion sensing accuracy
What is Gyroscope
500
This company, famous for their design software, invented Postscript, which used mathematical calculations to describe typefaces instead of relying on pixel by pixel definitions of fonts
What is Adobe
500
When opening a new Word document on a PC, Times New Roman is the default font used. On a Mac, this.
What is Cambria
500
This principle of design, along with visual hierarchy, directs the reader’s eye from one typographic element to another
What is Rhythm
500
This serif font, which shares its name with a southern state, is specifically designed for web readability
What is Georgia
500
Optima
What is Germany
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