In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts.
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In the video above, he guides us through this delightful 8-bit world and breaks it down pixel by pixel.
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Let’s talk about sources!
Archive.org has a wonderful collection of vintage arcade games that you can play online. This is where many of the videos of arcade games came from.
In addition to that, Barcade allowed us to film their collection of arcades.
Toshi’s book served as a blueprint for all the fonts you see in the video. You can purchase it here:
Finally, a few great places on the internet I discovered while researching the video:
This arcade font writer created by @photonstorm
Archive.org’s magazine and manuals collection:
This list of websites compiled by Atarimania:
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June 21, 2020Thanks so much for watching the video! I’ve listed quite a few fun things to check out in the description, including a link to archive.org’s internet arcade, which allows you to play hundreds of vintage arcade games for free online, and Toshi’s book, which will keep you occupied for hours if you’re bored at home right now! – Estelle
KAZPA APZAK
June 21, 2020To be creative you have to be restrained
João Medeiros
June 21, 2020i don't understand how you can make a video about arcade typography without talking about the computer typography that preceded it
MC-ATE-BIT
June 21, 2020Politicians: Video games causes violence
Game developers making fonts for their game
poshima
June 21, 2020Lead architect at Sony PlayStation, Mark Cerny, made marble madness at a young age. I wonder if he made that font too
bob808
June 21, 2020they didn't mention mario smh
Neil Gupta
June 21, 20202:02 That doesn't make any sense. How would 8 bits hold enough information to control 64 pixels independently? You sure you don't mean each cell is 8 bytes not 1?
Bartosz Kozak
June 21, 2020It is a pity that it was not mentioned that sometimes there were fonts saved on an even smaller grid. Where the capital letter "E" was written to a height of 4 pixels 🙂 How? The center line is do by grey color not white in the lower positon 🙂
Shelley Lloyd
June 21, 2020who were the group of developers that created the original font?
Luís Kupo
June 21, 2020Long live pixel art! ❤
Ousseynou Diba
June 21, 2020Macky Sall is a corrupt President
wejdy b
June 21, 2020i’m mad i’m seeing no minecraft comments
Basd_XGT4
June 21, 2020THE TING GO SKRRAAAAA
Sorry I had to
diego perez lozano
June 21, 2020Great…really great video !! ; )
GreenSwede
June 21, 2020It's "Legend of Zelda", not "Legends of Zelda". You put an unnecessary s in there. How can you mess that up real talk, not just in the captions but also when you spoke.
BeepBeepImASheep237 BeepBeepImASheep237
June 21, 2020Lest be honest, we all came here from ROBLOX
Cᴘᴛ Sᴇᴋʜᴀʀ
June 21, 2020Finally YouTube recommended me Non corona
Gavin Gardner
June 21, 2020As a designer and typography lover, I enjoyed this video. Thank you Vox!
Kayla Mitchell
June 21, 2020I wish everywhere used lexend
DogOfHades
June 21, 2020I am more impressed that a Japanese fellow who developed games more than 40 years ago can speak so good English!
Joshua Cantonwine
June 21, 2020I just watched a video about font.
Puj
June 21, 2020Legends of Zelda hit me like a truck
Colin Lamberton
June 21, 2020Video games and typography – two of my favourite things combined
jessy simon
June 21, 2020Oh my god,this video is awesome …it's awesomeness beats any blockbuster movie…
P.S I gave a big applause to those editors and artists who created this video
Smile for Discord
June 21, 2020Bruh she said Legends of Zelda
Jalyn Tan
June 21, 2020honestly one of the best things you can do for your creativity is to try to limit it
Michael J
June 21, 2020Excuse me?
"Legends Of Zelda"?
THERE IS NO S!
Logan Phillips
June 21, 2020What are your favorite arcade games?
Feel free to reply
Mine is Dig dug
JimmyFoxhound
June 21, 20206:47 Women in bikinis riding mythical creatures = unacceptable??? Oh come on that sounds awesome! 😂😂
Marc-Anthony Nava
June 21, 2020LegendS of Zelda….
ugh
ZedTaku
June 21, 20208:02
AHoodedPsycho DEUX
June 21, 2020Legends?
Sergio de la Vega
June 21, 202000:35 "you probably recognize it when it says this" ROASTED
TheTuubster
June 21, 20202:00 No. Each tile represents 8 Bytes. That's 8^2 bits. A line of a tile consists out of 1 Byte; each pixel one Bit of it. The Byte describes only the ID of the character displayed here, but does not contain the character data itself.