Font Game update update

The game was visited just under 100 000 times last week and the server had to serve 4,4 million pages to the users in a short period of time. Despite the brutal caning, the machine held up most of the time.

I’m now talking with (at least) two of the major foundries for possibilities to significantly expand the scope of the game. That would also mean that you’d get a different game every single time you played as well as a nice collection of font samples to browse. And all of that in your iPhone, too.

John, thank you for mentioning my type contest! Much appreciated! Have a great week and congrats on the 100th post at iLT!

Can’t wait for the interview with Nadine Chahine. I hope there will be a lot about designing Arabic types. There isn’t so much information about Arabic typography out there.

And, as always, it was a pleasure reading iLT.

Congrats! 100th post!

I can’t believe I’ve been here since the days of searching for the Japanese road sign face.

I’m sure this site will continue to be successful and you know I’ll be reading ;)

Cheers Johno! Here’s one to you *cracks open an Asahi

I’m really loving the Soho Gothic typeface. By the way, congratulations on your 100th post!

Your sunday postings are always great… And… The consolation prize… great too…

Regards and have a nice week
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matt

A very well deserved congratulations from me, John. 100 posts of this quality is a great achievement. Here’s to the next milestone – 1,000 posts. ;)

Congratulations for 100th post, and also for becoming first link on google for search “typography” (I think last week you were still second :P) This is a clear sign that if you are passionate about what you do, you will succeed:)

BTW, my favorite posts from last months are On Choosing Type and Newzald: From Moleskine to Market, although other posts are also great!

Keep up doing excellent work!

Another wonderfull post and already the 100th. Congrats Johno and iLT!

The 100th post already? Time to give up my silent lurker status and say congratulations!

I must say, I’m looking forward to the Nadine Chahine interview as well. She was one of my guesses when you said you’d be interviewing a female type designer. Hooray for non-latin type designers!

That gastropod food assemblage is -neat-. Ahem. Novella. *digs hole in ground* Emailed you a’ready, blushing like a guppy in a bucket of red paint. Thank you!

Soho Gothic is -goooooorgeous- and so is Lily Wang. Congratulations on 100 wonderful posts and may there be another 100 even more fantastic ones!

—Shuku

Great work mate. The Gutenberg Press videos look awesome. I’ve bookmarked them for future viewing. (Also going to look for the full video so I can put it on my iPod)

Also, loving Soho Gothic. Thanks for the Wallpaper!

Kari Pätilä
The font game is such a nifty idea. I’ve also tried it on my iPod Touch and it works great! Thanks for the fun.

And congratulations John! Here’s to another 100!

Nooo!

I love this site, and it features some lovely faces. The wallpapers are always a treat too. I eagerly downloaded the SOHO Gothic wallpaper to my Mac, only to discover that the word “typography” has been mis-spelt “typogpraphy”! Alas, now I will be forced to change it for one of your other fine wallpapers, or risk my reputation in the studio as the eagle-eyed proof-reading typo nut!

Congrats on the 100th post, and keep up the good work! (And the proof-reading!)

;-)

Hi there, im a big fan of the site, and i’d like to translate some articles to spanish.

Greetings from Mexico.

Wow 100th post already. iLT is growing up so fast (tear) :)
Yet again another amazing Sunday Type. Really cool video on the printing press, and always thanks for all the cool links. Hey John, not sure if you mentioned this in another post but are you still doing that Type Nuts site?

Kari
great news on the font game. Thanks for the update.

Sander
You’re welcome. Let me know if you run another.

Mostafa
Nadine’s own blog has numerous links to some great resources on designing Arabic type.

Cody
Goodness, the Japanese road sign! That feels like an age ago. Do you remember how you found the site? You must have been one of its first readers. And a campai to you too.

MattiaC
Thanks, Matt. You too, have a great week.

David
Thank you. 1,000! How many are you on now?

Miha
I didn’t know I’d jumped to first. Just checked and in second place today. Thanks to all of you who read and subscribe for that. Interesting to see your favorite posts.

Jos
Thank you, and all the best with your type endeavors.

Jongseong
Yes, hard to believe it’s 100. Perhaps an article on Korean type?

Shuku
You’re welcome. I enjoyed your mail, and I’m impressed by your perseverance. Did you send me your postl address, so that I can send you the book?

Hamish
I enjoyed the Gutenburg video too. I only wish they made more of it.

Hotmetal
What can I say? Would like to say that it was an intentional misspelling for dramatic effect. However, it was a simple typo—and on my 100th post too. Now fixed. Thanks.

Fernando
Please send me a mail (perhaps you did already?) Thanks very much for the offer. I appreciate it.

Robert
Yes, the Type Nuts site is still unfinished. Having a few problems with it—time is another thing I need more of. Thanks for contributing again!

Search engine with “typography blog”! I can’t remember what came up first, but you were up there and it was the first one I clicked. I think the Japanese road sign post really caught me and kept me. I was happy to see it turn out so well.

かんぱ〜〜〜い！！

Hm, I checked once again on google for search “typography”, and your blog was the first link – but only when I was signed in… it seems that I read iLT a lot, and Big Brother knows that:)

I just broke the 300 mark with my articles on davidairey.com. Yet to reach 30 on logodesignlove.com.

They grow so fast though, don’t they? Soon they’ll be leaving the nest and having babies.

Cody
I’ve been trying to get hold of one of those road signs ever since.

Miha
That’s very interesting that results are skewed by being signed in. I’ll check it myself.

David
They certainly do grow quickly. I guess logodesignlove.com is the son/daughter of davidairey.com. Hope she’s doing well.

ah, it is so nice to follow on your chat about your “babies”, John and David ;-) Your passion and love for your blogs definitely shows up in your work.
Johno, congrats with the centurion post. By the time you reach the 1000 mark I’m sure you’ll get another reader here - my daughter ;-)

wow, I’m glad that the font game was such a success, hopefully Kari is working hard on adding more random fonts to the list ;-)

that Lily Wang script is very lovely indeed, looks like it was inscribed with a feather and ink like in old days.

consolation prize - it is so Johno-like. I hope you’ll never change, I mean it.
Can’t wait for the interview with Nadine.

She is doing well, thanks. 2,000 subscribers since launching earlier this year, which I’m delighted about.

Maybe your website will spawn a typography love child, and he’ll form a relationship with my little girl.

Hmmm. I think that’s enough of my strange thoughts.

haha, you guys are something ;-)
Maybe your kids should come over to Inspiration Bit and get inspired by each other and fall in love ;-)

@David: Hmm, I can see logotypelove.com doing well! Perhaps cover corporate typeface choices as well as those used directly in the logos, and you’re onto a winner (or at least, a subsection of logodesignlove).

@Johno & the other article writers: congratulations on the 100th post, you’ve done such a fantastic job with this site!

Thanks John! I did indeed email you my postal address, it should be floating around somewhere; if not, let me know and I’ll send it again. (Cyberspace has been hungry lately.)

—Shuku

Hmm, is it just me or are you using some of that ampersand CSS you talked about in the last Sunday Type?
Loved the documentary! Quite fascinating!

Hey! You`ve gotten tons of congratulations on your 100th post, So I`ll go ahead and just thank you for leaving 100 posts for me to rumage over in delightful expectancy, as all that I`ve read since I discovered your blog a few weeks ago has been delicious. My craving for the font-related has found a great provider, and is inspiring me to produce, produce and PRODUCE… as soon as I finish my grad project.

Anyway, also wanted to let you know I’d be hapy to help you translate, I lived in Manhattan for a couple of years, and have donde comissioned work in the past.

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Colombia says Hi.

Congrats, John!! And I see iLT is still growing :D I still remember the days that we were marveling at your 3,000 subscriber mark. Now look at you! Here’s to your next 100 posts and many more subscribers, because we all should love typography.

oh hey, nifty wood type installation there in the first photo ;) Wonder which marvelous reader sent that spiffy specimen to you…

I absolutely loved the Stephen Fry documentary, when some one says “Johannes Gutenberg invented the modern printing press” it’s quite easy to picture someone magicking one from thin air, but this thing really was a life’s work. I think the point that hammered this home to me was the estimate that the creation of the template character set (about 270 characters i think) probably took the best part of a year. A whole year of meticulous filing and shaping, makes me realise how good we have it. Now whenever i get frustrated or bored, scanning page after page in indesign applying styles and weeding out double spaces and incorrect dashes, i’ll think of Gutenberg filing those little backwards characters and think myself lucky!