The Font Game

The Font Game has the combination between recognition, fun and learning. The app has over 600 font samples from various font foundries like Hoefler & Frere-Jones, FontShop, exljbris and many many more.

The game is intriguing because of the 3 level difficulty and the time. While playing I noticed myself looking at the clock and this increased the game fun even more. Can you tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica or can you spot Gerard Ungers Swift? The great thing about this game is I noticed a complete range of fonts that I didn’t know before. At the end of each game you will see an overview of the fonts which you got right or wrong, mayby a suggestion to create a link or additional information about the fonts.

The app the beautifully designed with a great UX interface and I believe this is one of the first in its kind and please try this addictive game for yourself! Available at the app store for $.99

• 600 font samples
• Rotate to view full screen
• 3 levels of game play
• Post scores to Twitter and The Hall of Fame
• View your answers after each game
• Battle against the clock

Get The Font Game

• Get The Font Game at the Apple Store
• Find additional information at the support website The Font Game
• Find out more about the best typography blog in the world, ilovetypography.

FontShop FontShuffle

Fontshuffle is a complete library of typefaces from the FontShop foundry. It features many of the typefaces available.

FontShuffle is not a game but a reference guide when searching for a typeface in need. At the start-screen you can choose what kind of type you are looking for such as sans, sans-serif, slab-serif and so on. From each selection you make a new selection screen comes up with more detailed questions on what you are looking for. After a few clicks you are presented with typefaces and when you rotate your iPhone/iPod the fonts will shuffle. After making a selection you are able to send the details of the chosen typeface by email. Free available at the app store.

• Over 650 font families
• Compare 24 typefaces
• Shuffle
• Send details by email

Get the FontShuffle app

• Get the Fontshuffle at Apple Store
• Additional information at FontFeed.

Other font apps available at the app store

Earlier this year I have reviewed the app WhatTheFont, an app for identifying typefaces from a photo.

At the app store many more applications are available, below you will find a few to keep you busy.

• The Typography Manual by Justin Stahl, a pocket resource for graphic designers and anyone that works with type. It provides the essential typography information on your iPhone/iPod. Available for €2,99, more information at The Typography Manual.
• Font Size — is a free application for people who work with fonts every day. It provides a size calculator for making statistically-informed font-size decisions. Enter the viewing distance and the Font Size calculator computes the minimum font size. Nice! More information about the Font Size at Paul Chang.
• TypePhoto — a nice app to visualization of your creative imagination. Select an image and create stunning looking typographical images, for more information see here at TypePhoto.

Let me know

What is your favorite typography app for the iPhone / iPod touch?

Below you will find various photos taken with clear usage of the new typeface. I very much like how this typeface works, it has a very sleek and modern look. Especially the thin font variant works really well. It attracted my attention immediately.

The main reason the typeface is very eligible because of its square glyphs, almost every single glyphs has the same dimensions, which makes it really readable from a distance.

From a online PDF file I have learned that this custom typeface has three font variants and are named:

• Citroen
• Citroen-Bold
• Citroen-Light

From the press release:

Graphic principles for visibility and consistency
CITROËN is introducing new graphic designs, a single typography and a unique tone of voice to boost the visibility and consistency of the brand. The new brand will universally reflect the Marque’s new status. The key colours are white, denoting openness and elegance, and red, to express vitality, together with black, grey and chrome, for status and power.

I have not seen many examples using the lowercase font variant of this custom typeface, so I searched internet and found this new folder using the typeface in uppercase and lowercase.

• This PDF folder of Citroën comparison guide will show you the usage of this new typeface.

Typeface Citroen: Uppercase

Typeface Citroen: Uppercase & lowercase

In my opinion the uppercase only text is much stronger than the lowercase variant, but it has a strong distinctive look which seems to be bases on a combination between Futura & Gill Sans. If any one knows who designed the custom typeface please let me know.

Citroën Logo

Since its introduction there has been many discussions about the logo, personally I prefer the new logo above the old one because of its transparency look & feel.

Citroën’s new logo will help reignite interest in the iconic brand.

• Visit Brand New at Underconsideration for a full review and comments on the new Citroën logo.

Showroom Citroën Amsterdam

Design sketch new style

As you can see there shall be many changes in design for the showrooms on the outside, at the additional information you can find more sketches of the interior of the new showrooms.

Additional information

• Visit the design company Landor for more information about their rebrand for Citroën, here you will find the PDF case.
• Wikipedia page about Citroën and its history.
• Review about the rebrand by Identityworks.
• Full review, press release and many artist impression photos at WorldCarFans.
• The official website of Citroën, the history website and additional information about Citroën.

Tell me what you think…

What do you think of the new typeface used for Citroën?
Do you think this new design look have a positive impact on the sales?

Please share your thoughts, thank you in advance!

The typeface became free with the release of Windows 3.1, which was a sales hit and Arial quickly gained spread around the globe. The main reason why Microsoft chose Arial as standard typeface is because of the licence fee from the original Helvectia typeface by the Haas Foundry was too high. Missed change to educate the world about the wonderful Grostek family.

Arial vs Helvetica

There are several glyps of the typefaces similar and some of them are different. Due the similiarity Arial is often (unfortunally) mistaken for Helvetica, the differences between these two typefaces is explained in an article on iLT, both typefaces are shown next to each other making it easier to recognize.

• Visit Arial vs Helvetica on iLoveTypography

Today Arial belongs to Linotype as Monotype Original:

Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Without further due:

Arial is everywhere!

Passing by an advertisement by a Dutch website about flight tickets, noticed the Arial Black at the top, when visiting the website also all other text is designed using Arial.

Advertisement sign

Driving on the highway when I spotted the Arial here in this advertisement, it seems to be an German clothing company using Arial for their logo, the payoff of Gerry Weber seems to be in a Futura.

Thai cuisine

Love the Thai cuisine and went to this small restaurant in Amsterdam, the window signs and menu is done using the type Arial Black.

Highway truck

Another highway shot taking while driving… Here is a clear usage of Arial Black italic for the logo and text.

Mirabeau*

A large Dutch internet company is using Arial for the illuminated signs, at first I was mislead, Mirabeau* using Arial? I only really recognized it by the letter “R”, visiting the website it seems they have changed the typeface of the logo.

Clearing out the garage

Throwing away old stuff… And found a small travel raincoat. Used typeface Arial Black.

Swarzkopf

Say again… Swarzkopf is using Arial? My wife bought something to color hair and while brushing my teeth I couldn’t believe my eyes. Quickly went to the store and yes… Swarzkopf is using Arial!

Tommy Hillfiger

Yet another large company is using Arial, this time I found a print on my wifes shoebox all lettering is using the typeface Arial.

Kaldi Koffie

This is actually one of the few brand where they consistently use Arial for all their visual communications. This Dutch Coffee shop uses Arial for their logo, text and shopping branding.

Vehicle signage

Waiting for the light to turn green, just had enough time to take this photo. This van has some lettering done using typeface Arial.

Hotel signs

Went skiing about two weeks ago and never have I seen that much usage of Arial. Here the hotel used Arial for the name of the hotel and the text.

Getting up the mountains

Most of the ski lift in this area (Ischl, Austria) uses Arial as typeface for the name of the ski lift.

Sun terras

Unfortunately we didn’t have a sunny weather, but when there is you can visit the sun terras. On the doors is placed with etch foil the text “Sonnenterrasse” in German language.

Ski rental

This shop used Arial for all the visual communication, not to mention that in this small village there where three of these shops… Arial is everywhere!

DigiD

Getting back and filling out some forms for the government, in Holland there are ways to fill out forms using a digital signature, called DigiD. I noticed the usage of Arial at the top of this letter. Hopefully this will change towards to new brand identity of the Dutch government.

UPS

The packages send using UPS are using Arial on their sticker, all information is printed using Arial.

For sale sign

Due the credit crisis many houses are for sale in Amsterdam, the broker puts op V-shape signs with the information “For Sale”, this broker also uses Arial Black for their name.

Design shop

Everyday I drive pass by this furniture shop in Amsterdam, the sell luxury design furniture, but all the typeface use is Arial Black.

Plummer company

This is a large plumming company is Amsterdam, they use Arial Black for their logo and other forms of visual communication.

Bike bag

Walking down the streets and spotted this printed bike bag which they use to distribute flyers, typeface used Arial.

Licence plate holder

Spotted this one many, many, many times. A licence plate holder for Dutch cars, most of them use Arial to display the name of the garage.

Vehicle signs

This plummer company uses Arial for their logo and text, designed with icons.

Local coffee bar

This local cafe uses Arial Black for their logo on the window, also the openinghours and other text is displayed in Arial.

Availability of typface Arial

From Identifont:
Designers: Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders
Year: 1990–92
Copyright: Monotype Classic Fonts
Publisher: Monotype
A TrueType version of this font is provided free with Microsoft Office (Macintosh).

More information at Linotype.

Wikipedia

Arial is also a typeface family comprising standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded. See here for more information at wikipedia.

So tell me…

This typeface is everywhere! Please share and tell me did you have your Arial today?

WhatTheFont iPhone App

This is a review of WhatTheFont for iPhone App, I will go into every step of identifying a font using this App & a iPhone. I will try to get the results as stated from the myFonts website: Identify the fonts in a photo or web graphic! .

Ever seen a great font in a magazine ad, poster, or on the web and wondered what font it is? Whip out your iPhone and snap a photo, and WhatTheFont for iPhone will identify that font in seconds!

WhatTheFont iPhone App is free available from the iPhone store created by myFonts.

Let’s get started!

Downloaded the tool into my iPhone and started the program, as you can see in the splash screen there are two options. One is to take a new photo or you can select a photo from your photo-roll in your iPhone. I selected the first option and took a new photo of the Apple Airport box. When taking a photo use the following tips from myFonts:

• WhatTheFont works best with just a few, large letters. Keep the text to fewer than 20 characters.
• Try to get the text as close to horizontal as possible. (Pretty hard to manage with an iPhone)
• Avoid connected letters (as in logo’s or cursive handwriting)
• A well-lit, uniform-color background works the best

With this Airport example I adapted the above steps and started working with the photo and selected use photo. Now I am able to use my fingers onto the photo to draw a box around the text. At first it seems pretty hard to get a good box around the text, but after some experience it worked better and betters. You can also rotate the photo by rotating your iPhone, I found this not very helpful and I would suggest to take the photo in a standing up position. When you have selected the desired text to identify hit the right top corner Upload. The App is uploading the cropped image to myFonts to identify the font.

Check Characters

In this step of identifying a font you can see the results of WhatTheFonts character guessing. The App shows you every single letter of the selected text and you are able to remove characters from identifying by selecting the red icon left from the letter.

Some characters such as the letters i WhatTheFont separates the stroke from the dot. You can merge these two images for betters results in identifying the font. This needs some practice, try selecting two images with two fingers, the boxes turn grey and you are able to move them towards each other, the tool then merges the letters and you only need to fill in the correct letter in the right box. Hit the box and the type-in screen appears.

When you are done modifying and inserting missing characters hit Identify! and the right top corner. The App communicates with myFonts and presents you with the results.

Font Identified!

The font is recognized! In this case the font Myriad-Pro Semibold is found as to match, further on various other close fonts are mentioned for you to pick the perfect match with the taken photo. I have run this example a few times, 3 times out of 4 it gave this results, not bad in my opinion.

When selecting the identified font you are presented with two options: One send an email containing a link to the myFonts website or you can open the link on your iPhone with Safari browser. The most powerful option (for me) is sending a link by email, this way I can check the typeface

Visiting the myFonts website allows you to buy and see all the font details.

My findings

I simply love this tool for my iPhone, it gives me freedom to take shots where ever I am and quickly find out which font it is. A few details that I don’t like about this tool:

• When first installed the App crashed many times, I needed to clear the iPhone memory by a hardware restart in order to make this tool work better.
• Taking a horizontal shot of text is not very easy and the letters on the photos are quickly a bit blur, so WhatTheFont cannot recognize the font. I know this is partly due the low quality camera in the iPhone.
• Indoor shots are not always recognized correctly due the low contrast background.

My Suggestions for WhatTheFont iPhone App

WhatTheFont for iPhone is currently in version 1.0, I have some suggestions to improve this tool and make it even more useful:

• In the crop image selection should be these two options: a contrast slider to get a better separation between text and background and the option to sharpen the image. I believe with these two options you will have better results in identifying the fonts. Even better would be a function to apply an auto adjustment to the cropped text (like in Fireworks/Photoshop). I used the iPhone App Photonasis Lite to enhance photos for better recognition.
• Add more separation in boxes at the Check Chars step, when trying to delete characters I kept hitting the wrong box and got the typescreen.
• Use a timestamp and Google maps location when sending a link by email, this way I will know when and where I was when I saw that particular font.
• When a font is not recognized use a option to send the image to the WhatTheFont forum to find out if anybody else could help me finding out what font it is.

Requirements and information

• For iPhone and iPod Touch with the latest firmware update. With the iPhone you can take photos and use them in the tool, for iPod Touch users you can only use the photos from the photoroll (no camera).
• Wifi connection or mobile network to upload the photos and see the results.
• Fonts, fonts and more fonts!
• Visit the website myFonts to read more about this great iPhone App WhatTheFont
• Download and install WhatTheFont on your iPhone.

Conclusion

I like the WhatTheFont iPhone App a lot, it might needs some more approvements but my iPhone is turning into a complete design studio at the moment! Love it! The succes rate for identifying fonts is (with good photos) I guess somewhere around 75%.

Go try this tool, I am looking forward to your findings in the comments!
Thank you in advance.

Currently there are over 200 departments and ministries which all have different logos and uses different typefaces as their brand identity. In a pitch held by the Dutch government studio Dumbar won this competition and introduced a new logo and 1 brand identity: 1 Logo.

Typeface: Rijksoverheid Sans / Serif

From the beginning of 2008 Peter Verheul was asked by studio Dumbar to take his typeface Versa and transform the typeface usable for a larger audience. He changed the look and feel of the Serif version of Versa Serif and created a complete new set of letters for the Sans version. The fonts are named Rijksoverheid Sans and Rijksoverheid Serif. The name of the typeface is recognizable as “government” and will be used in every way of visual communication. The Rijksoverheid Sans will be used mainly for headings of text and in signage or wayfinding systems. The Rijksoverheid Serif is used as bread letter for reading text. In just under nine months Peter Verheul managed to finalize the fonts and released them in four different variations, from Regular, Italic to Bold.

Designing the Rijksoverheid typeface

During the time of creation Peter Verheul did not have much time to take pictures (as said in his introduction speech) but he kept a note book full of drawings and notes of creating and designing the typefaces. After finishing the typefaces he donated them to Bijzondere Collecties, a Dutch important collection of valuable work from Dutch graphical, typographical– artists. The Bijzondere Collections hosts the booklet, first printouts and everything that is related in creating the typeface Rijksoverheid.

Letterijk book

Letterrijk Book is a story about the birth and why of creation the typeface Rijksoverheid written by Mathieu Lommen, published by De Buitenkant Publishers. The booklet covers everything from the start of the project and the combination with project 1 Logo, a story about how the typography started working together, with many drawn examples of early stages of letter design. It also covers the complete glyphs of the typeface variations, with over 700 glyphs each this typeface is multi-language proof. With the design of the typeface several key factors of demands where given to Peter Verheul and Studio Dumbar. The typeface should be easy to read, should not be too wide in order to reduce printing costs, it could be used for all forms of visual communication of the Dutch Government and every department will use it therefore it will reduce the costs of different typeface licenses. The typeface will function as a bridge between society and government, a typeface that everybody will feel comfortable with.

RijksoverheidSans

In this example above you can cleary see the use of Rijksoverheid Sans, an easy to read typeface with a large x-height. This allows maximum legibility for heading text, signage, wayfinding and other forms of visual identity. In the introduction speech Peter Verheul mentioned that he was impressed by the way the Sans version would be used for bread letter. He is interested to see the further development of Rijksoverheid Sans in this field.

RijksoverheidSerif

In the example above the Rijksoverheid Serif is the bread letter for reading text, I have read the booklet a couple of times and it seems to be a very legible typeface. Which will form the basis of the whole brand identity of the Dutch Government.

Project: 1 Logo

The Dutch government brand identity was not concise or consistent, with over 200 departments and ministries costs were rising of each department havigd their own logo, typeface, print materials, signage and everything that involves the visual communication of that department. There was not a direct link to society and confusion about the identity the government wants to presents themselves. Project 1 Logo was born to bring back all brand identity of the Dutch government and give one signal to society about what the government stands for. In a pitch several design studios participated in order to create 1 Logo, 1 brand, 1 identity, 1 way of communicating between society and government, coming all together as 1 government. From 2009 until 2011 every department should use the new logo and typeface in all forms of visual communication, a huge operation which involves many parties. I believe there will be a brand guideline from studio Dumbar to lead everything into the correct, concise and consistent use of the brand identity.

1 Logo Signage

We have been pleased to work on a mock-up signage nameplate for 1 logo project, the Rijksoverheid logo was engraved into an stainless steel nameplate.

Rijksoverheid Sans / Serif

Related information

• Studio Dumbar, the designer of 1 Logo identity.
• Dutch government website about project 1 Logo, Communicatieplein.
• Website of designer Peter Verheul

Comment and win Letterrijk Book

I have a free copy of the Book Letterrijk waiting for you, just comment in this post and random I will select one person who wins a copy of Letterijk Book. Closing in one week, Friday November 21st.

Rotis® gives an impression of both strength and generosity and all four versions can be used interchangeably with one another. Rotis® is suitable for book/text, documentation/business reports, business correspondence, magazines, newspapers, posters, advertiments, multimedia, corporate design. from Linotype

During my holiday in the beautiful German Steigerwald (near Nürnberg and Bamberg) I came across the Rotis Font Family quite often, this is a photo showcase collection of the Font Familiy Rotis Sans.

A book about photography

This is where I first spotted Rotis, during a visit at the bookstore and came to the idea to putting this post together. As you can see, Rotis works well for legibility and design.

Street Signs

We were walking down the streets where I took this photo of a small billboard, The font family Rotis has enough detail to show at large points. Good readable from a distance.

Cafe Signage

Sitting down for a espresso where I saw this acrylic nameplate, clearly the usage of the noticable ´e´ of Rotis. A good color usage as where the brick will look dark from a distance the off-white lettering will stand out.

1000 Jahre Bamberg

During the celebration of 1000 years of the city Bamberg various information signposts has been put up in the city (now only available in the Church), a clear usage of font Rotis.

Museum Nürnberg

We went to various museum in Nürnberg, but this one got my attention. The openinghours and detailed information folder about the museum was all created using Rotis.

Shopping

My wife wanted to go shopping, so I sat down and read some magazines. Here I spotted Rotis in a Loreal print ad, see the payoff.

Escape route plan

When walking down a mayor cityhall I spotted this Escape signage. All type is printed using Rotis font family, easy to read.

Bookstore

Going to a bookstore in Germany is a pleasure for all typophiles, you can recognize a font on almost every cover you see. I spotted the Rotis on the cover of this book.

Door Signage

A small signage for a local company called Temme uses Rotis on their door signage, a bold versions and a regular are displayed in the design.

Museum Gerolzhofen

When visiting the museum in the small city of Gerolzhofen you can find the openinghours plate created using the font Rotis. With so many lines and text Rotis proves a clear legibilty.

Arte Caffe

At the tourist guide shop I found this business card all designed using the type Rotis. Unfortunally we could not find the coffe shop, but I sure liked the design.

Kind of noodles

At the grocery we bought some kind of noodles (Spätzle), you can get this typical German kind of noodle with many dishes. At the package I spotted the Rotis, small printed but readable.

Rotling Wine

With food you can drink wine, I bought this dry Franken white wine of 2007. The label was printed using the type Rotis. If you can find a bottle I can suggested it, tasted very good.

Steigerwald walk

The area we stayed was Steigerwald, a great forrest area and we went for many walks there. Our guide was a map of the area, with on the frontpage a design using Rotis.

Shoppingbag

At the local bakery we bought typical German bread (really dark with good taste), we carried the bread in this paperbag, printed with the details of the bakery using Rotis.

Franken Brunnen

Water is good for everybody and Franken Brunnen does it all the way, they use Rotis on almost every form of visual communication.

Availability of Font Family Rotis

The font package is available in four type families, via Linotype:

• Rotis® Serif Font Family
• Rotis® Sans Serif Font Family
• Rotis® Semi Sans Font Family
• Rotis® Semi Serif Font Family

Personally I like Rotis Sans Serif Font Family (2nd on the list above) the best, it has a very distinctive look and feel with a high legibilty for usage in many fields of visual communication.

More information about Olt Aicher

There is much written about Olt Aicher who was not only a font designer but also a graphic designer who had a big part in designing the Münich Olympic Games in 1972.

• Information about Olt Aicher at Wikipedia.
• Great article about Olt Aicher at Underconsideration.
• Work from Olt Aicher at a huge flickr pool to be found here.
• The graphic design work he created for the Münich Olympic Games at this website.
• Other interesting and informative article about the type Rotis, here at manic.com.

So tell me..

Did you have your Rotis today?

Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. It is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use. Two fonts (500 & 500 italic) are absolutely free.

Museo Sans

The 700 and 900 font variations will be perfect for a signage & wayfinding system, it has a touch of frutiger combined with akzidenz grotesk which will look great in signage design. In future signage designs I will try out Museo Sans and will share the designs here on DesignWorkPlan.

I believe Jos has done a fabulous font design with Museo Sans and it’s available at a very low price for such a quality font.

Related & Download information

You will be able to find all the information about Museo Sans at Jos Buivenga’s website & blog. The font family is available via MyFonts and comes in 10 variations. The complete font family is just $79,20. Get yours quickly because this 20% cut is only until October 17th.

• Get started with Museo Sans and buy this great font via MyFonts.
• Read more about Museo Sans at the designers website Exljbris (check the header!)
• Or visit the weblog of Jos Buivenga and leave a comment
• Related post: Museo Semi-Slab Serif

What do you think of Museo Sans?

Let me know what you think of the design and usability of Museo Sans.

Construction Billboard

A large size billboard with information about houses in Amsterdam, you can clearly see the power of Meta with the readability from a great distance to this billboard.

Vehicle logo Endemol

Waiting for a free pomp I spotted the logo of Endemol at the side of a car, it seems to be the Meta Bold, but I’m not sure about the letter — l — , anyone?

Big billboard

A big advertising for a Dutch company that sells small business software, used the Meta Bold for their billboard campaign. Also easy readable from a distance.

Bike Bag

In Holland you see the bike bags very often. Displayed is the logo of Sandd a new post company which uses the Meta for their visual communication.

Truck on the highway

Quickly trying to get my camera and take a shot while driving, I was mislead by the big company name. But the payoff is display in Meta Book.

Gulpener Beer

Even on my holiday I spotted the Meta, this time the Caps version got my attention. A Dutch Beer Browery Gulpener used the Meta Caps on various visual level of communications.

Supermarket Coop

A small supermarket company is using Meta Book & Bold to show their latest offers, I’ve also seen plastic bags printed with logo and text using the typeface Meta.

Staatsloterij / Lottery

Hollands biggest (run by the state) monthly lottery uses the typeface Meta! Not for all forms of visual communications but here I spotted a announcement created in Meta Book.

Meta Pickles

A Dutch company Volwater uses various weights of FF Meta to display the information on the bottles, a good example of various font weights working together.

Lekker bij Rosé

Huibrecht Duijker is one of Hollands famous wine lovers, he writes, tells and drinks wine. In this small booklet the typeface Meta is used in various ways, bold, caps, book. It shows again that Meta is a very eligable typeface for small point sizes.

Signage

This is an example of signage made with Meta Bold, created in our company I suggested to the owner of the building to go for Meta in all signage and wayfinding.

Shopping Window

Found through photo website flickr, a shopping window printed with various font weights of Meta in a nice design.

Elastic Bandage

Went through our medicines and found the package of Hansaplast who are using the Meta in English and Dutch text at the front and backside of the package.

No more headache

With this package of paracetamol you will never have a headache again. For all text on the package they are using the Meta in Bold and Book typefaces.

Avery Surface Cleaner

To clean and remove adhesive vinyl foil you can use the Avery Surface Cleaner, a clear usage of font type Meta Bold on the bottle.

Real Estate Sign

A Real Estate Sign from Lunshof is using Meta as their house type. A good readability with the use of blue fonttext and white background.

Gall & Gall

Hollands largest liqueur store is using Meta for all levels of visual comunications. The stores, posters and internet website is filled with the Font Family Meta. A Meta tread to buy your favorite wine or beer at Gall & Gall.

http://www.DesignWorkPlan.com

Last.. but not least.. The complete template of Design Work Plan (this website) is using the wonderful typeface Meta Bold.

Availability of Meta® Font Family

The Complete Font Family contains a package of 24 variations (via FontShop) and was published by FontFont (see their website for lots of Meta usage), is available in the following formats Mac PostScript, PC PostScript, PC TrueType. All styles Book, Caps, Bold and Bold Caps are also available in Italic. Starting from a set of 3 fonts at € 40,- to the complete font family for € 229,-. When bought at FontShop you can download the fonts after the purchase and start using them right away. Although FF Meta® is not in the top 10 bestsellers at FontShop I believe this is a very popular font.

• Visit FontShop for a complete overview of the Meta Font Family 1
• The complete overview of 55 variants of Meta Font Family.
• The Meta 3 Font package which contains Meta Hairline, Meta Thin & Meta Light. (Thank you Stephen Coles for adding the links)
• Wikipedia information page about the font Meta

Did you have your meta today?

Take a look around you and tell me.. Did you have your Meta today?

Read more about Gerard Unger at his Biography.

BigVesta Bold

Download the PDF with the correct answer to WTF April 2008 Contest! BigVesta Bold by Dutch type designer Gerard Unger a modern sans type face created in 2003 with a much bigger x-height or shorter ascenders and descenders than Vesta. Visit the website from Gerard Unger to see more information about the typeface Vesta and BigVesta. To purchase typeface BigVesta and download the specimen visit the font store.

Thank you all for the great support in this name that typeface contest. Special thank goes out to John from iLT , Yves from Fontshop, Sander from Sander-s and Dave from Grainedit. This has been a huge succes and a great experience! I have used this tool to randomize the contestants.

• Total contestants: 160 (wow!)
• Correct answers BigVesta: 60
• Almost correct answers Vesta: 57
• Wrong answers: 43

Winner(s)

It is difficult to see the difference between Vesta and BigVesta, therefore I have decided to give away two prizes! First prize for answers BigVesta and second prize for answers Vesta.

First prize winner

A size A3 stainless steel laser etched nameplate, engraved with your artwork. I have contacted you by email with the details, congratulations Dav, Forma! on winning the WTF April 2008 grand prize!

Second prize winner

A size A4 stainless steel laser etched nameplate, engraved with your artwork. I have contacted you by email with the details, congratulations Jean-Baptiste Levee! on winning the WTF April 2008 second prize!

Click the images to see the full list, this is the list of the incorrect answers.Thx John for the mention

Thank you!

Thank you all for participating in this contest! Stay tuned for more..

Hint

Dit schreefloze lettertype is ontworpen door een vooraanstaande Nederlandse font ontwerper geboren te Arnhem.

Wat kan je winnen?

Geef de naam van dit lettertype en maak kans op de volgende prijs: Een laser-gegraveerde RVS naamplaat, formaat A3. Met bijlevering van een 8 mm zwart acrylaat montage plaat zodat je de naamplaat op de muur kan bevestigen. Gegraveerd volgens jou aangeleverde (Illustrator) artwork.

Regels:

• Vul je naam, emailadres en het lettertype in.
• Inschrijving eindigd op woensdag 23 april 24:00, de winnaar zal 24 april bekend gemaakt worden via designworkplan.com.
• Verzending wereldwijd.
• Uit alle juiste inzendingen wordt random door de computer één email adres gekozen.
• Succes!

English: Font contest

A font contest to promote Dutch Type, test your type knowledge and win a laser engraved nameplate. Valued over 150 Euro.

Tip!

This sans-serif type was designed by one of Dutch leading type designers who was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

What can you win?

When filling out the form with the correct type you can win a stainless steel engraved nameplate, size A3. Supplied with a black acrylic mounting plate to fix the sign to the wall. Engraved with your (Illustrator) artwork.

Rules

• Fill in the form with your name, email adres and type answer.
• This contest will close on Wednesday the 23th of April at 24:00 CET.
• Wordwide shipping included.
• From all correct answers one email adres will be random selected by a computer.
• Good luck!

Thank you for your support! The winner will be announced tomorrow.