Typography helps you engage your audience and establish a distinct, unique personality on your website. Knowing how to use fonts to build character in your design is a powerful skill, and exploring the history and use of typefaces, as well as typographic theory, can help.
But it doesn’t have to be boring. This selection of online and mobile font games will help test and expand both your knowledge and identification skills.
Do you like type? Did you go see the movie Helvetica and break out in tears of joyful satisfaction at the end credits? Do you have a graphic designer cousin who taught you what sans serif meant, and did you think it was fascinating? You’re going love Type:Rider.
This new game for iOS and Android takes the history of typography and transforms it into a beautifully mesmerizing game.
Then there’s the typography. For each asterisk you collect, you unlock a piece of the history of typography from cave paintings to Comic Sans. Each level represents a different period in human history starting with “Origins” followed by “Gothic” which jumps in around Gutenberg’s time.
Read: This Gorgeous Game Teaches You the History of Typography | Gizmodo.
Type:Rider – TRAILER – EN from Cosmografik on Vimeo.
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