Splinter Cell Conviction looks very cool with its projected images integrated into the game environment. Most current games I see are using out-of-the-box fonts but some companies are putting more care into typography. If you don’t have a copy of Wipeout, try to get the PS version and make sure it has the original manuals. The bar for how cool a game could look with good design was set so high with Wipeout. ( Iomanoid, above, is Larabie’s Arkanoid homage. It went really well with the game’s Tron-esque theme. Rather than just using the font on the cabinet, it was used in parts of the game as well, even in the sequel. Arkanoid (Taito) was a great example of matching the font to the game the angles represented the ball’s path and the O represented the ball. Williams was creative with fonts compared to other game companies at the time. Joust had a medieval themed font, which at the time was so different from the default fonts other games used. They had some similar techno themed fonts in Stargate and Defender. I’d look at these fonts in the arcade, try to remember how they’re made, then go home and make them on my TRS-80. Vid Kidz designed bitmap fonts that were a big inspiration for me as a kid. It may be a boring choice but as soon as you see it, it says “games”. Ray Larabie: The Namco all caps arcade font used fror all their classics ( Mappy, Pac-Man, Rally X) is the ultimate game font. Geekosystem: What do you consider to be some of the great classic (and contemporary) gaming fonts? Geekosystem recently got the chance to talk to Larabie about his favorite retro gaming fonts, why screens make type design harder, and the infernal prevalence of Handel Gothic in every sci-fi game ever: Formerly an art director at Rockstar Toronto and currently the mastermind behind Typodermic Fonts, you may know Larabie’s font designs from games like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age: Origins, and Mass Effect.
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Ray Larabie has given more thought than most to the question of how to make fonts and video games work together.
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