What Typeface Are You?
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Terrific piece in The Boston Globe today by Christopher Shea, reporting on design firm Pentagram’s online tool that allows you to find out what typeface best describes you.
It’s in the spirit of Meyers-Briggs and other personality typing tool. You can access the test by clicking here. You’ll need to type in the word “character” (without quotation marks) as your password.
I came up Corbusier Stencil, a typeface with only capital letters and numbers. “If you like to impose yourself over something or someone but always do so with good reason and impeccable judgment, the Corbusier Stencil is your type,” the voiceover tells me as my results are announced.
After taking the short, four-question quiz, what do you come up with as your typeface and does it describe you well? Or as well as any of the personality tests you might have taken in the past?
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What fun! I was surprised to learn I’m Courier — to paraphrase, an open democratic type used by those so thoroughly modern and of the moment that they do not need to shout about it at all.
Looks like I will have to re-design my still on the boards new web-site!
Well, at least you have upper-case and lower-case letters to choose from!
In response to another comment. See in context »I’m courier, too. Loved the style of the test – especially that we don’t see a face when determining our type(face).
Going to change my default font now.
I am so glad to be able to bring two Couriers together.
In response to another comment. See in context »Being a graphic designer, I have to say what a fun test this is. I have to believe there is some truth in it because the font that I use for my logo is Helvetica Ultra Thin, which is a hairline typeface. And I was given Archer Hairline as my type!
OK, the handwritten notes feature on the notepad at the end was cool. But, according to “Dr Freud,” I was a font I have never before seen, Dot Matrix, and I have to say I am bummed! I feel like it’s saying I’m a robot. Two of my words were “emotional” and “relaxed” and this font doesn’t seem to fit. A fun diversion nonetheless!