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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Thanks 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
To be creative you have to be restrained
i don't understand how you can make a video about arcade typography without talking about the computer typography that preceded it
Politicians: Video games causes violence
Game developers making fonts for their game
Lead architect at Sony PlayStation, Mark Cerny, made marble madness at a young age. I wonder if he made that font too
they didn't mention mario smh
2:02 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?
It 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 🙂
who were the group of developers that created the original font?
Long live pixel art! ❤
Macky Sall is a corrupt President
i’m mad i’m seeing no minecraft comments
THE TING GO SKRRAAAAA
Sorry I had to
Great…really great video !! ; )
It'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.
Lest be honest, we all came here from ROBLOX
Finally YouTube recommended me Non corona
As a designer and typography lover, I enjoyed this video. Thank you Vox!
I wish everywhere used lexend
I am more impressed that a Japanese fellow who developed games more than 40 years ago can speak so good English!
I just watched a video about font.
Legends of Zelda hit me like a truck
Video games and typography – two of my favourite things combined
Oh 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
Bruh she said Legends of Zelda
honestly one of the best things you can do for your creativity is to try to limit it
Excuse me?
"Legends Of Zelda"?
THERE IS NO S!
What are your favorite arcade games?
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Mine is Dig dug
6:47 Women in bikinis riding mythical creatures = unacceptable??? Oh come on that sounds awesome! 😂😂
LegendS of Zelda….
ugh
8:02
Legends?
00:35 "you probably recognize it when it says this" ROASTED
2:00 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.