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The Geekiest Font Quiz You Will Ever Take

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1. We’ll kick off with some easy ones. What font is this?

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1. Arial
2. Helvetica

2. And this?

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1. Helvetica
2. Arial

3. And this?

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1. Arial
2. Helvetica

4. OK, a bit trickier now. What font is this closely modelled on?
1. Neo Sans
2. Klavika
3. Verdana

5. Which of these is NOT Helvetica?
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6. One of these logos uses Futura. Which one?
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7. The following sentence is from a 2013 article about popular web fonts. Which font does it refer to?

“A hugely-popular typeface designed by Mark Simonson. It is often described as a hybrid of Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk, combining a geometric appearance with modern proportions. In my opinion, [its] use on the web is so ubiquitous that it is starting to feel a little overused.”
1. Gotham
2. Avenir
3. Proxima Nova

8. Name this logo, which was commissioned by Google and is used in many of its web pages and advertisements.

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1. Open Sans
2. Comic Sans
3. Apercu

9. The Guardian’s old logo incorporated two fonts. What were they?

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1. Times New Roman, Arial
2. Garamond, Helvetica
3. Helvetica, Gotham

10. In March 2014, a teenager claimed the US government could save $370 million per year by switching from Times New Roman to which font, pictured below?

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1. Garamond
2. Arial
3. Verdana

11. What font is this?

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1. Centurion
2. Verdana
3. Tungsten

12. The two fonts used here?
1. Helvetica Bold, Bundy
2. Garamond, Times New Roman
3. Arial, Futura

13. Which movie franchise is this font associated with?

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1. “Back to the Future”
2. “Die Hard”
3. “Transformers”

14. Which classic TV show uses this font?

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1. “True Blood”
2. “The Sopranos”
3. “Twin Peaks”

15. Which company uses this font?
1. NASA
2. Microsoft
3. Disney

16. Recognise this font from anywhere?
1. FedEx
2. The “Star Wars” franchise
3. “Futurama”

17. Name this font.

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1. Frutiger
2. Courier
3. Century

18. PayPal’s logo uses a very slightly modified version of which popular font?

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1. Verdana
2. Arial
3. Times New Roman

19. This company’s logo has been rewritten using a font, Pico y, normally associated with which rival web company?

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1. Yahoo
2. Digg
3. BuzzFeed

20. In common with many other luxury brands, Giorgio Armani uses a modern serif font. Which one?

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1. Didot LT
2. Modern No 20
3. Bodoni

21. Name this font.

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One of the first examples of a slab serif typeface, released in 1845. According to Know Your Typeface: “Notable as one of the last new developments in nineteenth century typography, the letterforms represented a significant change from the slab-serif Antiques and Egyptians that were so popular in that time.”
1. Baskerville
2. Rockwell
3. Clarendon

22. From a recent Guardian article. Referring to which font?

“It was developed in 1956 by Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffman, very much in sympathy with the new Swiss Style – which treated graphic design almost as a postwar utopian mission. Just as modernist architecture stripped away superfluous building ornamentation, so the new Swiss typography snipped off the frivolous serifs – relics from an older era of print technology, namely stone carving.”
1. Garamond
2. Helvetica
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