Typography Test
How well do you know your type? As a designer and developer I thought I was “hip to the know”. Well I gots myself an ed-u-m-ication and found out I’m really just a pixel pushing hack.
Last weekend I picked up Tips on Type aiding my new typography infatuation. It was chalked full of old school terms, practices, and ideals on page layout and type near the dawn of computer page layout. I found the section on the anatomy of type to be very interesting.
Honestly I’m rather ashamed that I didn’t really know as much about type as I once thought. So for fun I scanned it and turned it into a test. I’m going to hand it out to my students as a fun thing to do before the holidays. That’s right I said fun.
You can download the Typeography Test and take it for yourself.
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