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- 题名/责任者:
- Arcade game typography : the art of pixel type / Toshi Omagari ; foreword by Kiyonori Muroga
- 出版发行项:
- London : Thames and Hudson, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780500021743
- ISBN:
- 0500021740
- 载体形态项:
- 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Omagari, Toshi, author
- 附加个人名称:
- Muroga, Kiyonori, 1975- writer of foreword
- 论题主题:
- Video games-Design
- 中图法分类号:
- J06
- 一般附注:
- Includes index
- 摘要附注:
- "Arcade 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 games, 'Arcade Game Typography' 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 lesser-known 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 虁baked in' to the characters, so Arcade Game Typography looks unlike any other typography book, fizzing with life and colour." -- Publisher's description
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