typography pub quiz
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- Baskerville
I'm going to a typography pub quiz tonight (I know, I know) in old street with some uni friends, and since I've not got a lot on today I thought I'd swat up.
Can anyone think of what kind of things could concievably come up?
I thought maybe stuff like telling arial and helvetica apart:
http://www.ms-studio.com/article…But I hope the content will be more funny/interesting than that.
what else could I brush up on?
any ideas?
- flavorful0
I love trivia!
I love typography!
I wish I was in Luhnduhn so I could play!!
- kelpie0
picture round:
naming the constituent parts of letterforms
god I hope not :-/
- poomoo0
geek
- paraselene0
probably some biographical stuff about eric gill as you'll be near his old stomping grounds?
- Baskerville0
what para, you mean gill's physical love for animals and his sister?
- paraselene0
i was thinking more along the lines of where the original gill sans is stored, but sounds like you know more than i do!
:P
- honest0
Which came first? Helvetica or Futura?
Why did Microsoft opt for it's own typeface formats?
What's so good about Adrian Frutiger's grid?
What's the proper name for an @ symbol?
Why are lowercase "r"s so awkward to kern?
What was the first instance of the co-joined word "et" to form an ampersand?
- Baskerville0
As the revelations about Gill's private life resonated, there was a reassessement of his personal and artistic achievement. As his recent biographer sums up: "After the initial shock, [...] as Gill's history of adulteries, incest, and experimental connection with his dog became public knowledge in the late 1980s, the consequent reassessment of his life and art left his artistic reputation strengthened. Gill emerged as one of the twentieth century's strangest and most original controversialists, a sometimes infuriating, always arresting spokesman for man's continuing need of God in an increasingly materialistic civilization, and for intellectual vigour in an age of encroaching triviality."
- kelpie0
so he fucked dogs then?
- kelpie0
dog-fuckers usually become important cultural figures. Take at Julian Fellowes as an example
- Baskerville0
yup.
that's proabably why all the other weights of gill sans are so badly drawn. He designed the regular and italic and then starting screwing his dog and lost interest in type. He rattled out the bold and ultra bold in a weekend while his dog was at the vet.
true story.
- paraselene0
lol see there you have it, boys and girls, bestiality leads to ruin.
- kelpie0
I hate to think why his dog was at the vet
- OSFA0
The rebirth of Comic Sans
- Rand0
which well known type designer slept with his daughter and had sex with animals?
- blaw0
holy shit, baskerville... so funny.
- Rand0
oh jesus, I did it again.
*shits on self
- uncle_helv0
yup.
that's proabably why all the other weights of gill sans are so badly drawn. He designed the regular and italic and then starting screwing his dog and lost interest in type. He rattled out the bold and ultra bold in a weekend while his dog was at the vet.
true story.
Baskerville
(Apr 11 07, 04:03)Hahahahahahaha
- Baskerville0
Just a quick update for you guys.
Well, it was a very tough quiz, lots of obscure history and questions on detailing and classification as well as music related type questions.
But of all the teams, my team 'Special Knees' won the day and took home first prize!
Part of me is proud, given that we were up against London's nerdiest including tutors from design colleges, and part of me wants to die of shame for being able to identify a photo of zuzana licko.
- paraselene0
let your geek shine on! be proud!
:D