Arcade Game Typography The Art of Pixel Type - The Art of Pixel Type

i>Arcade Game Typography/i> presents readers with a fascinating new world of typography - the pixel typeface. Video game designers of the 70s, 80s and 90s faced colour and resolution limitations that stimulated incredible creativity: with letters having to exist in an 8x8 square grid, artists found ways to create expressive and elegant character sets within a tiny canvas. br/>br/>Featuring pixel typefaces carefully selected from the first decades of arcade video games, i>Arcade Game Typography/i> presents a previously undocumented ''outsider typography'' movement, accompanied by insightful commentary from author Toshi Omagari, a Monotype typeface designer himself, and screenshots of the type in use. Exhaustively researched, this book gathers an eclectic typography from hit games such as Super Sprint, Pac-Man, After Burner, Marble Madness, Shinobi, as well as countless lesserknown gems. The book presents its typefaces on a dynamic and decorative grid, taking reference from high-end type specimens while adding a suitably playful twist. Unlike print typefaces, pixel type often has bold colour ''baked in'' to the characters, so Arcade Game Typography looks unlike any other typography book, fizzing with life and colour.

Product details

• Authors: Kiyonori Muroga, Toshi Omagari, Toshi Omigari
• Assisted by: Kiyonori Muroga (Foreword)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780500021743
• ISBN: 978-0-500-02174-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 880 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Typography, Typography & lettering, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Typography and lettering