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Type Trumps is a card game by Rick Banks [Face37]. It’s a variation of the renown Top Trumps game [Dubreq; Waddingtons; Winning Moves] and involves comparing various typeface attributes such as ‘Legibility’, ‘Weights’ and the discursive ‘Special Power’.
It's an ideal Creative & Digital under-graduate project: it introduces general graphic design principles; develops specific typographic skills; and requires a number of ‘design for print’ techniques.
Type Trumps has been a staple of the FdA Web Design course for over a decade, featuring many students, typefaces, signature colours, and occasionally, staff. Here's a selection of the best of the rest. The designers – left to right, top to bottom – were:
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