I’m Courier. What type are you?

Every typeface is like human that has its own personality. I think that it might be a common question for type designers to be asked by people “If you were type, and which type would you be?” Honestly, it will be a sudden blank if you want me to translate my personality into a type immediately. It’s uneasy to pick one typeface to represent yourself from all these countless typefaces in this world.

Fortunately, Pentagram has done this favor to us. “What type are you” is their recent project that helps you to analyze your personality and find out just which type you are by answering four simple questions. After entering your name and password (Password : Character), you must turn on your speaker and a faceless man will guide to the final result – “the type you belong”. You can see an short explanation and history of the type you got, and you also can see a list that shows who else had been categorized to the same type as you were.

It’s really a fascinating microsite and I got a lot of fun from it. By the way, I’m “Courier”, a monospaced slab serif typeface which was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for use in typewriters, and I pretty satisfied the result of mine. And what type are you?