Fred Catolico - Typography Dating Game

For this Type Connection game I chose "Adobe Garamond Pro" with the lower case "e" to begin with. When hovering over the letter it said, "I am a modern-day, High Renaissance man" which I found to be most interested in because I’m into Futurist and Iconic designs.

The strategy that worked the most for me was the “Seek the Similar” one because I’m definitely a visual learner and was able to match the other typefaces with meticulous similarities.

The first characteristic I noticed on the original Garamond Pro is that it is a sans serif typeface. This automatically made me choose the letter “b” as a match because although it had serifs, they weren’t as noticeable as the serifs on the other choices. The counter of the lower case “e” I chose seemed to be very similar to the lower case “b” that I chose as well.

This page showed the similarities and differences between the typefaces I chose “Garamond Pro” vs. “Chaparral Pro.” I really like this page because I thought it was cool how you could visually see each letter on top of one another with the differences being a bit faded so it was visible and clear. As you click on the circled differences, a caption would pop up each time to notify the specifics. This really gave me a helpful perspective about those little details.

The last page said, “Congratulations! You’ve made a successful match.” This page was also very helpful by explaining the history between the two matches and how they were similar in that aspect. Both typefaces were inspired by 16^th century eras, were very precise, and presented to constitute masculine type of letterforms. Overall, this game was very help yet fun. Even when I got a wrong match, it was really easy to navigate back to the beginning and start with different choices.