CR Blog

Type Trumps pack

Photography

Posted by Gavin Lucas, 17 August 2007, 15:25    Permalink    Comments (3)

Avant Garde Type Trump card Comic Sans card

Recent graduate of Cumbria University, Rick Banks, has created a set of Top Trumps style cards where classic typefaces are the subject matter - hence the name, Type Trumps. Each card is designed to make the most of the particular font it features, and typophiles will happily find such faces as Frankfurter, Times, Helvetica, Johnston Underground, Neu Alphabet in the pack. Type Trumps players can battle it out using such statistics as year of design, the amount of weights, cost etc to win their opponent's cards. Banks has given each typeface a "rating" score, a "legibility" score and even a "special power"... For example, Clarendon beats Poppi on price but Poppi wins in the weights department - having nine over Clarendon's three...

Here are some of our favourite cards from the pack...

Arete card Stripes Type Trump card

Various Type Trump cards

Type Trumps packshot

See more of the cards and Banks' work, visit his website: www.face37.com and also find/buy some of his work on Blanka

3 Comments

awesome!
raji m
2007-09-26 16:16:09


These look amazing. I want some. definitely something to while away the third year dissertation blues whilst almost doing something work related. Geek heaven.
Sarah Adams
2009-09-01 23:50:29


A-MAZ-IN!
Frog
2009-12-23 13:58:51


Tell us what you think

What happens with my feedback?

We no longer require you to register and have a password in order to comment, simply fill in the form below. All comments are moderated so you may experience a short delay before your comment appears. CR encourages comments to be short and to the point. As a general rule, they should not run longer than the original post. Comments should show a courteous regard for the presence of other voices in the discussion. We reserve the right to edit or delete comments that do not adhere to this standard.

Get the RSS Feed
NULL