glyphhunt

typefaces

One face per letter position, so the three o's and two e's look nothing alike. Every glyph below is rendered from the actual font file used to build the video.

the target
theolovesobsidian — 17 letters, 17 typefaces, in temporal order
Zapfino
Papyrus
Herculanum
Chalkduster
Bodoni 72
Didot
Copperplate
Luminari
Trattatello
Snell Roundhand
Brush Script
Marker Felt
Noteworthy
American Typewriter
Impact
Phosphate
Rockwell
hardest typefaces
share of scored runs that read each glyph position correctly, hardest first. caps-only faces (Herculanum, Copperplate, Phosphate) render lowercase as small caps — that inconsistency is part of the difficulty.
pos glyph typeface letter read correctly % ok/total
1 Papyrus h ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
2 Herculanum e ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
3 Chalkduster o ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
4 Bodoni 72 l ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
7 Luminari e ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
8 Trattatello s ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
10 Brush Script b ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
12 Noteworthy i ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
13 American Typewriter d ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
15 Phosphate a ███··············· 16.7% 3/18
6 Copperplate v ████·············· 22.2% 4/18
9 Snell Roundhand o ████·············· 22.2% 4/18
11 Marker Felt s ████·············· 22.2% 4/18
16 Rockwell n █████············· 27.8% 5/18
0 Zapfino t ██████············ 33.3% 6/18
5 Didot o ██████············ 33.3% 6/18
14 Impact i ██████············ 33.3% 6/18