If the geek on your list loves playing The Rather Difficult Font Game by Kari Pätilä, and if that geek owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, she will adore The Font Game app, created by Kari Pätilä (game designer, web stuff), John Boardley (ilovetypography founder), and Justin Stahl (iPhone development). With 657 font samples, three levels of difficulty, and the ability to post your results to Twitter, it’s the perfect way to test or show off your type chops, or just learn.

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Filed under: Design, Fonts, Genius, Gifts, Typography

9 Responses to “Font Geek? There’s an app for that”

1. Font Geek? There’s an app for that | Web Developer said on 19 December 2009 at 10:48 am:

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   prisca said on 20 December 2009 at 7:25 am:

   Thanks for those links, Jeffrey :)
   I know this one will be another one of my favourites :)

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   Kari Pätilä said on 20 December 2009 at 7:54 am:

   Thank you for filing this under “Genius”. Apparently all the time that went into planning, testing and designing was well worth our troubles.

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