Wednesday 20 May 2009 15:59
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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