The Font Game app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 5000 ratings )

Games Education Educational Trivia
Developer: Justin Stahl

1.99 USD

Current version: 2.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 11 Dec 2009
App size: 5.16 Mb

From I Love Typography comes The Font Game, the smash hit rapid-fire typeface-identifying game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Train your eyes by identifying more than 1000 font samples, and play quickly to secure a spot on the Hall of Fame!

The Font Game:
Its you versus 30 font samples in a battle of wits and willpower. Scale in, scour the details, analyze the names, and make your choice—but beware! The clock is ticking. There’s no time limit, but the faster your fingers and the sharper your senses, the higher your total score. Was the last round a walk in the park? Up the ante with a new level of difficulty.

The Terminology Game:
Abrupt or adnate? Open counter or double dagger? This time around, terminology is the name of the game. Choose the right term for each visual definition; not for the faint of heart! Youll be faced with everything from anatomy to serifs to some rather more obscure symbols. Do your homework and impress your fellow designers at your next critique.

Save Your Favorites:
Love the look of that sans? Want to remember that script for your website redesign? Want to study up for your next round of play? Go through your game answers and save font samples to your Favorites list.

Game Center-Enabled:
The Font Game now utilizes Game Center to track high scores. Choose quickly and wisely to score more total points and prove your typographic prowess.

Other Features:
Check your answers after each round • Scale every font sample in the game • Rotate the game to view the samples in fullscreen • Three levels of difficulty: Somewhat Difficult, Rather Difficult, and Exceedingly Difficult • Boasting is not only welcome, its encouraged! Tweet your score directly from the app • Love the fonts and want to find more? Visit the websites of the foundries that provided samples for the game • Retina display graphics

"4 out of 5 Mice" — Macworld

Exhilarating, addictive, educational, and fun—download the The Font Game today. Brought to you by I Love Typography, the worlds most popular fonts and typography blog.

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Pros and cons of The Font Game app for iPhone and iPad

The Font Game app good for

the only thing I may suggest is to add more fonts and eventually give users the possibility to decide what words too read, not only Fargo. In general I like the game very much

Great Game, i Love it. Thanks, is just what i Need to improve my Knowledge about typography. 1000000 thanks.

With the latest update, all my previous wishes are pretty well implemented. The terminology game is just fantastic. However with the new fonts, the easy levels got much harder to master. The only feature request left would be a sortable favorite list to easily compare similar fonts (maybe be some kind of transition effect?) Excellent work!

This app is very well designed. The games pretty tough, though! Plus+ integration would be welcomed.

It would be great to go from an answer to the next one faster (by swipping) instead of going back and forth for each ones.

Love the the whole idea, UI design, color schemes, typefaces, all of it! And im getting pretty good. Is a good game to excercise common knowledge for typefaces. Please add optimization for iPhone4 and retina compatibility!! Thanx!

Some bad moments

I enjoy this game insofar as I stay on the first level of difficulty. The game crashes EVERY time I try to switch the difficulty level. I paid for this game, so it would be really nice to play all of what I paid for!

Bought the game and it wont even open! App support is useless because they website for the game is clearly nonexistent. Thanks for stealing my money, dont waste yours.

In "see answers" mode, when Im zooming in on a font, I am unable to swipe left/right to navigate to the other fonts. How can I improve when you make the study of the fonts so hard??? Love it. But fix that please.

if your font knowledge revolves around whatever foundry put this out, youll do well. if youre a fan of the classics, youll be stumped. okay, Ill give a couple stars just cuz its awesome that theres anything like this. if they added 1000 more or so of the fonts that are important, its be rad.

This needs updates to rake advantage of the antiglate screen its distracting as is. Also other words and or letters would be a step up.

This would be a five-star rating, but the app crashes when I hit the "Back" button after changing the difficulty. This makes it impossible to confirm the difficulty changes and therefore the game gets very boring and predictable.

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