All these iPhone apps have a typographic twist, from games to creating typographical artwork and experiences.

Now admittedly, sometimes the inclusion of type doesn’t make the output any better, but it’s good to see experimentation of type used and given audience on this modern device. The iPhone is an ideal platform to produce apps that experiment, play with type and breath new life into typography. Here are a selection of 10 iPhone apps that all do something a little different with type.

Kern iTunes Store | Developer Website
Kern is a Tetris style game where you have to slot the letters into place in order to balance the kerning of the words.

KERN

Type Drawing iTunes Store | Developer Website
Type drawing allows you to draw with type, and create works of art from letters. This genius little app has excellent support and even a flickr community to showcase work.

Type Drawing

Typography iTunes Store | Developer Website
Typography is a way to create messages out of found typography, and display them for friends to read. This is the iPhone version for the website typography kicks ass.

Typography

The Font Game iTunes Store | Developer Website
Created by I Love Typography, The Font Game is a fantastic multiple choice font identification game, for type geeks.

The Font Game

For All Seasons iTunes Store | Developer Website
This is an lovely simple experimental type based app. It’s also completely free.

For All Seasons

Typograffitti iTunes Store | Developer Website
Typograffitti helps you to create ransom style notes. if you want to kidnap your friends iPhone and extort some money out of them, this app could pay for itself.

typograffitti

Type War iTunes Store | Developer Website
Type War is a simple and well executed font identification game but with a 50/50 chance of getting it right

Type War

Type Photo iTunes Store | Developer Website
Turns your photos into textual representations with enough options for a wide range of interesting results.

Type Photo

Type Pong iTunes Store | Developer Website
The original arcade game is back with a typographic twist, the bats and even the ball are represented by type.

Type Pong

Helvetication iTunes Store | Developer Website
I love the name and style of this great looking app, but I’m not sure how much shelf life there is in distinguishing between Helvetica and Arial.

Helvetication

Header image via flickr, created with Type Drawing.