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# Type:Rider
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/type-rider/
- Published: 2013-12-04T12:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:22.000Z
- Description: A smartphone game where players travel through the ages of typography
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Created by French designer [Cosmografik](http://cosmografik.fr/?ref=protein.xyz), [Type:Rider](https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/type-rider/id667443268?ref=protein.xyz) is an adventure game for smartphones, where players travel through the ages of typography. Embodying a plucky colon, (the dots, not the organ) – this is perhaps the only game in the world where the lead character is a punctuation mark, [Cool Spot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93G-mRLQio4&ref=protein.xyz) doesn't count. Players can manoeuvre their way through twelve typeface-themed levels, where they encounter popular fonts like Garamond, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Pixel and Comic Sans, collecting pages of a codex to move onto the next.   
  
From prehistoric rock paintings to Pixel art of today, Type:Rider’s gamification of typography allows players to educate themselves in a captivating design-based environment. This isn't the first instance we've seen of a platform that blurs the lines between gaming and learning; recently [Simogo](http://simogo.com/games/device6/?ref=protein.xyz) published [Device 6](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/11/device-6?ref=protein.xyz), a mystery-thriller app in which the written word is the game’s map and narrator.

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