Quiz: What’s your type?
I love personality tests. And horoscopes. And psychics. Of course, when any of them tell me something I don’t want to hear, I deem it all a bucket of lies crafted for the directionless. Still, I always derive pleasure from the possibility that we are all so simple and straightforward as to be easily defined by a psychological questionnaire, or our birth dates, or some clairvoyant’s perception of us–as told to him or her by angels, spirits, or Loch Ness.
My new favorite personality test asks four simple questions to find out your perfect typeface and what it reveals about you.
I am categorized as the furiously fair and somewhat utilitarian Van Doesburg, thereby revealing my remorseless inner simplicity, hidden deep beneath all that Sicilian flash. Or whatever: at the very least it’s a fun way to spend a Tuesday morning.
If you end up taking this, let me know which typeface you are by commenting here. xo
Expanded antique!
I am the superior (but strangely, more common) Archer Hairline. Oh, yeah.
I’m Dot Matrix — headless psychiatrist said it’s because I live in the “now now now” and not so concerned with the “why why why or the how how how.” Which I aim to be, but not sure if I’m quite dotty enough yet.
I’m courier, “a democratic typeface that everyone can type in. You do not have to be bold, in fact, you cannot be bold with courier. If you are an every man or every woman in a thouroughly modern way and that modernity means you do not want to shout about it, then courier is your type.”