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WTF: April 2008, The Winners!

by Sander Baumann. Average Reading Time: about a minute.

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 a preview of the fontfaceBigVesta 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.

Vesta & BigVesta by Gerard Unger

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

Grand 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

Grand 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..




14 comments on ‘WTF: April 2008, The Winners!’

  1. Sander Spek

    April 24, 2008

    Ah, 6th place for me, that’s also nice. ;-) Thank you for orga­niz­ing this nice contest!

  2. Dav, Forma

    April 24, 2008

    Thank you sooooo much. (That just made my day. Woohoo. Thanks. Really, really lookin’ for­ward to the plate.)

  3. Mirthe

    April 24, 2008

    Dat had ik nu nooit kun­nen raden :)

  4. Sander Baumann

    April 24, 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!

  5. johno

    April 24, 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.

  6. Sander Baumann

    April 24, 2008

    Thank you John for your great sup­port here and at iLT! Much appre­ci­ated. Stay tuned for more to come.

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  8. David Gheorghita

    April 25, 2008

    thanks for the great con­test, and con­grats to the winners!

  9. Sander Baumann

    April 25, 2008

    Thank you David for par­tic­i­pat­ing! So close.. I will let you know when I run another. Good luck.

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  11. Vinz

    April 25, 2008

    4th place of the “wrong” answers! damn it, that was close ;)
    ok, when is the next con­test :D

  12. Sander Baumann

    April 25, 2008

    Thank you Vinz for par­tic­i­pat­ing! I will update you when segd.nl runs another type contest.

  13. Brian M. Curley

    May 13, 2008

    How is the sec­ond place win­ner some­one who essen­tially got it wrong??

  14. Sander Baumann

    May 16, 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.

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