Type Trumps Wednesday 20 May 2009 15:59
Posted in category Inspired

As the romantics that we are (huhum!), on valentines day Miss White bought me these very cool Type Trumps designed by recent graduate of Cumbria University, Rick Banks. Each card is designed to make the most of the particular font it features, and typophiles will happily find such faces as Frankfurter, Times, Helvetica, Johnston Underground, Neu Alphabet in the pack. Type Trumps players can battle it out using such statistics as year of design, the amount of weights, cost etc to win their opponent's cards. Banks has given each typeface a "rating" score, a "legibility" score and even a "special power"... For example, Clarendon beats Poppi on price but Poppi wins in the weights department - having nine over Clarendon's three...



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Richard Brown | Freelance interaction designer, digital creative & front-end developer.



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