Toshi Omagari who works at Monotype UK recently published a book documenting the typography history of arcade games during the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s.
Omagari, who works at Monotype UK, should know; he recently published a book documenting the typography of arcade games from the 1970s, '80s and '90s. "I was always sensitive to video game graphics in general when I was young," he says, "but it was when I started typeface design professionally that I noticed the artistry of pixelated fonts, especially coloured ones, which were virtually unknown among the professional designers." Omagari gathered 250 such fonts for his book, Arcade Game Typography.
According to Omagari, the creation of the Atari Quiz Show in 1976 launched a standard-looking sans serif font, made from an 8x8 pixels per character, which became the most frequently used typeface in video game history.
More examples of the fonts contained in the book can be seen here.
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