The definitive survey of ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s arcade Online game pixel typography.
Arcade Sport Typography gifts readers with an interesting new international of typography: the pixel typeface. Online game designers of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s confronted colour and determination boundaries that inspired improbable creativity. With every letter having to exist in a small pixel grid, artists started to make use of artful tactics to create chic persona units inside a tiny canvas. This e-book gifts typefaces on a dynamic and ornamental grid, taking reference from prime-finish sort specimens even as including a definitely playful twist. Arcade Sport Typography recreates that visible aesthetic, fizzing with lifestyles and colour.
Featuring pixel typefaces in moderation decided on from the primary many years of arcade video video games, Arcade Sport Typography gifts a completist survey of a prior to now undocumented outsider typography motion, followed through insightful remark from writer Toshi Omagari, a Monotype typeface clothier himself. Accumulating an eclectic vary of typography, from hit video games reminiscent of Super Dash, Marble Insanity, and Space Harrier to numerous lesser-identified gem stones, Arcade Sport Typography is a shiny nostalgia travel for avid gamers, designers, and illustrators alike.
300 colour illustrations
