Do you find it difficult to find an excuse to take a break from your designing duties? If so, these fiendishly addictive design games are for you. Each one is ideal to play during your coffee break, no matter how short it is. And if any one asks, you can tell them that these games help hone your design instincts and sharpen your skills . Seriously.
In this post are ten addictive games that test your knowledge on things related to design : fonts and kerning, colors and hues, hex codes, site layouts and more. Race against the time and compare scores with your fellow designers, and most of all, have some fun.
Kolor
Think you know magenta from fuchsia or snow from ivory? Hereâs a chance to test your eye for subtle shade differences as you race against the clock to identify the correct design color in this great game from Kolor.
Kern Type
Laying out text evenly on the page, or âkerningâ as itâs known in the typography business, is harder than it looks. However, as any self-respecting designer will tell you, itâs integral to creating slick content on the page.
Shape Type
Thereâs a fine art to shaping letters, especially when you want to create an aesthetically pleasing image on the screen. Test your skills with this fun, tablet-compatible game. ITâs harder than it looks.
Hex Invaders
Whoever said that hex codes were fairly useless in terms of everyday skills obviously never played this game! Itâs based on the classic arcade game, but with a cunning design twist, of course. To destroy the invaders, youâll need to match the supplied hex code that appears on the top of the screen.
The Bezier game
Ever struggled to draw things in your designs with the pen tool? With Bezier, you get a tutorial that shows you how to use the pen tool to draw several shapes. Just copy the steps to quickly master the pen tool. Replay the tutorial if you find yourself at a loss.
Brandseen
Brandseen gives you the chance to combine your knowledge of some of the worldâs most famous brands with your color identification prowess. Youâll be shown 9 of the most iconic logos, and youâll need to use your supreme design-jedi master skills to match the right color to the logo design.
color
Now itâs time to get serious about testing your color knowledge. This simple, yet comprehensive test challenges your eye in finding the right shade. Youâll need to identify complementary colors, analogous hues, triadic, tetradic and saturation.Or just try to get the color in the middle circle right. Good luck!
Odd one out
Hereâs a nice color recognition game with a twist. Youâll need to find the odd one out each time, but be warned, the game gets progressively trickier! Itâs a great way to train your eyes to get used to subtle differences between hues, which is always useful when designing a site.
Pixel perfect
Pixactly is the game that assesses how well you really know your pixels. All youâve got to do is draw a box that matches the width and height dimensions given, and see how close you get to the right answer. Sounds easy, right? Thereâs only one way to find out.
Online Color challenge
According to the statistics included on this site, 1 in 255 women and 1 in 12 men have some sort of color vision deficiency. No matter your gender, we suspect youâll find this color sorting game quite challenging!
The Rather Difficult Font Game
As designers, we use fonts all the time. So why are the names so hard to remember? If youâre constantly finding that the name of the perfect font that is just at the tip of your tongue, hereâs a game to help improve your knowledge and understand the subtle differences between font styles.
Shoot the serif
Select your level of design skill, then shoot only the serif fonts in order to get promoted. Itâs an addictive shoot-em-down style game that helps you easily identify serif fonts. Just make sure you leave the sans serif standing!
We hope you enjoyed your break, had a lot of fun, and even learned something new! Whatâs your favorite game? Do you know any other great design quizzes, tricky experiments, or challenging apps? Do share your scores, achievements, and thoughts!
Editorâs note: This is written by Lana Lozovaya
ENJOY & HAPPY LEARNING WHILE YOU STAY HOME! :Â
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