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Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Visual Comprehension Test Fail

OK faithful readers, here is a little quiz for you.

Can you tell the difference between the following fonts?

Scala sans regular:

Scala sans regular sample

and Scala sans LF regular?:

Scala sans LF regular sample

Oh, you can? What gave it away? The way the numbers are very very different? Was that your first clue?

Next quiz: can you tell the difference between Scala sans regular:

Scala sans regular sample

and Georgia ?:

Georgia sample

Wow, again? You guys are on fire. Now, it may be presumptuous of me, but I'm guessing that none of you are professional printers. Do you think that maybe typefaces would be something that a professional printer might have some degree of familiarity with - at least to the extent that they are able to see very obvious differences with, oh, I don't know, their naked human eye? (You know, like you did just now?)

Well then I know a professional printing office that gets a big giant F- on their report card for "Visual Comprehension". You guys, however, get an A+.

If you'd like to print some business cards for me, I have some business to throw your way.

Posted: Sep 30, 2008 12:56

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