For my font geek friends

[nonelvis]

The Rather Difficult Font Game.

I got 31 out of 34. The game is randomized, so you may get easier choices than I did ... or you may not.

Comments

26 out of 34

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

Oh well. I'm a bad person.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

26/34. And I thought I'd be good at this :(

[lunchboy.livejournal.com]

Also 26/34. Maybe that's just what you score if you're pretty font-dorky but not actually a web designer.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I started to try it but when the pages were so slow that it was passing my clicks through as answers to the next two questions as well as the one I was actually trying to answer, I gave up. Since the page doesn't look too badly designed for performance, I can only assume he has the slowest fucking server in the free world.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

OMG and his main website is about optimizing websites for performance! I mean, yes, he does say in his 15 April entry, apologetically, "The first piece of advice I’d like to impart is this: do not call your blog Say It Ain’t Slow if your server is, in fact, slow during peak hours. The fact that you design something to be fast doesn’t necessarily mean that it’ll be like that under every circumstance." But good god. Putting aside the matter of whether 9:30 AM Eastern US is "peak hours," that is one of the slowest sites I've been on in ages. Someone needs to change ISPs. Urgently.

[nonelvis]

I had no problems with it last night. There could just be a random site slowdown this morning.

[requialexa.livejournal.com]

It's clearly due to the sheer volume of people who lurk at your LJ and go take tests that you recommend :-)

::waves:: that was great fun, and I am far from a font geek (tho I'd like to be one) I was impressed with my 22/34 and my ability to recognize Times New Roman in a lineup.

Takes me back to my paper writing days that required I waste hours at a time choosing the perfect font....

[nonelvis]

Some of the choices were really tricky, especially the sans-serif options. Even a visual designer friend of mine (who scored 32/34) admitted she had a tough time with it.

[nonelvis]

This was *hard*. There were a couple typefaces in the rotation I simply hadn't heard of at all, and at least part of the time I sat there thinking "okay, the 'o' has a reverse vertical stress, which means it can't be X, Y, or Z ... ." If I hadn't taken a typography class in college, I definitely wouldn't have scored that high.