Tag: fonts

A Video Game Font Collection

What do you know, I’ve made it almost a whole week without making a Youtube video the primary subject of a post! Josh Bycer’s post notwithstanding: not only did I not make the post, but the focus is a video he made himself!

The font for Atari Football. The popular “Press Start” font available in multiple places on the internet, and used in many classic arcade games from many companies, is derived from this one from Atari Inc.

Without further ado, today’s post is about a font collection made by thealmightyguru, and presented on a webpage here. Despite what the main page implies, the individual game pages do not seem to have their fonts for individual download. You’ll probably have to download the while collection, available here, for that. You won’t have to worry about long downloads though, for the whole archive is only 1.4 megabytes!

Here are some examples:

The Intellivision system font is very distinctive. It was used in many Intellivision games, because it was stored on a ROM chip in the console.
This font comes from arcade Golden Axe. It’s reminiscent of several Sega arcade games from that time.
This one’s from Exidy’s arcade game Circus. Before Atari’s font was copied by everyone, many arcade games used utilitarian fonts like this one.

One of Doom’s fonts. It was shown off on the creator’s Bluesky feed.