Delightfully Friday Junior: Font or Cheese?

By now you’re familiar with Delightfully Friday Junior—our weekly team activity to build camaraderie and have a bit of fun.

I was feeling inspired, having recently attended a local screening of The Big Cheese, a documentary about American cheese mongers competing against France in “the Olympics of Cheese.”

With some fancy cheese in my fridge and a voracious appetite for more, I thought…what better activity to facilitate than a few rounds of that classic game, Font or Cheese?

You can play along at home! For each of the names below, do you think it’s the name of a font or a cheese? Record your answers, then scroll down for the key and determine your score.

Font or cheese?

1. Clarendon
2. Castelmagno
3. Barmeno
4. Picodon
5. Cathelain
6. Raumsonde
7. Cretino
8. Patzcuaro
9. Gjetost
10. Svecia
11. Gonzaga
12. Olimpico
13. Piora
14. Rudelsberg
15. Crescenza
16. Kacst
17. Bembo
18. Kaiser
19. Canora
20. Coulommiers

Some of these I found in a list someone had already assembled (thanks!), but some I added on my own. Something about the “-berg” ending (probably because of Jarlsberg cheese) sounds like cheese to me! But no, Rudelsberg is the name of a cheese!

Picodon makes me think of fonts because “pica” is a unit of typographic measurement. And Olimpico IS a font! But Picodon is one I added in to throw of my design-minded coworkers—it’s actually a delicious regional cheese from France that is soft and a little stinky.

“Gonzaga” reads a little like “Gorgonzola,” another delicious cheese. But it’s a fake-out! Gonzaga is a font.

Other “hmm, sounds like…” traps await in the list I created. Proceed to check your answers below.

Answer Key

1. Clarendon - Font
2. Castelmagno - Cheese
3. Barmeno - Cheese
4. Picodon - Cheese
5. Cathelain - Cheese
6. Raumsonde - Font
7. Cretino - Font
8. Patzcuaro - Font
9. Gjetost - Cheese
10. Svecia - Cheese
11. Gonzaga - Font
12. Olimpico - Font
13. Piora - Cheese
14. Rudelsberg - Font
15. Crescenza - Cheese
16. Kacst - Font
17. Bembo - Font
18. Kaiser - Font
19. Canora - Font
20. Coulommiers - Cheese

How’d you do?

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