Arcade Game Typography Stationery Unlike other genres that can

Unlike other genres that can be attributed to a specific era or style

be it adulation or contempt

From whistling mice and rascally rabbits

Unlike print typefaces

Robert Klanten

Arcade Game Typography Stationery Unlike other genres that canArcade Game Typography 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. Featuring pixel typefaces carefully selected from the first decades of arcade video