WTF: April 2008, The Winners!
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The answer to the WhatTheFont Type Contest is: BigVesta Bold by Dutch Type Designer Gerard Unger, born at Arnhem, the Netherlands, he studied graphic design and typography and type design in 1963 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In 1984 Gerard Unger was awarded the H.N.Werkman-prize for all his typographic work. He has designed over 20 typefaces which are used for many purposes.
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.
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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..
April 24th, 2008
Ah, 6th place for me, that’s also nice.
Thank you for organizing this nice contest!
April 24th, 2008
Thank you sooooo much. (That just made my day. Woohoo. Thanks. Really, really lookin’ forward to the plate.)
April 24th, 2008
Dat had ik nu nooit kunnen raden
April 24th, 2008
Sander Spek, thank you for your enthusiasm! Better luck next time
Congratulations Dav, Forma!! Looking forward to your design.
Mirthe, dank voor het meedoen! Je wint in iedergeval de prijs voor het als eerste invullen van deze wedstrijd!
April 24th, 2008
Great competition and a wonderful prize.
My only suggestion would be not to publish the list of incorrect entries—might be a little embarrassing for those involved.
Hope that you’ll run another competition soon.
April 24th, 2008
Thank you John for your great support here and at iLT! Much appreciated. Stay tuned for more to come.
April 25th, 2008
thanks for the great contest, and congrats to the winners!
April 25th, 2008
Thank you David for participating! So close.. I will let you know when I run another. Good luck.
April 25th, 2008
4th place of the “wrong” answers! damn it, that was close
ok, when is the next contest
April 25th, 2008
Thank you Vinz for participating! I will update you when segd.nl runs another type contest.
May 13th, 2008
How is the second place winner someone who essentially got it wrong??
May 16th, 2008
Hi Brian, thank you for your comment. As you might have seen, the difference between Vesta and BigVesta are small. At the end of the competition there where 50/50 Vesta and BigVesta answers therefore I’ve decided to give away two prizes.