Sprint 2 was the first arcade game released by Atari in 1976 that debuted the 8-bit arcade font that many gamers know and love today. And the Atari Legacy font wishes to carry the torch as it once did back then, especially with new unicodes and glyphs. You can tell it's a font based on the golden days of gaming because of the "E". The unique "E" may seem very familiar for those who played Atari games back in the arcades, and those today who played Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection! The "?" and "!" are even sourced from Atari's Quiz Show, also released in 1976!
This is a clone of Arcade LegacyThis font can be used for your own posters or video games, such as NES, Atari, etc. (This Font is finished, you can now download it. Only Use if you're Latin or English.) Esta fuente se puede utilizar para sus propios carteles o los videojuegos, como NES, Atari, etc (Esta fuente ha terminado, ahora se puede descargar el programa. Sólo uso si eres latino, francés, español o Inglés.) Cette police peut être utilisé pour vos propres posters ou des jeux vidéo, comme NES, Atari, etc (Cette police est terminée, vous pouvez maintenant le télécharger. Utiliser uniquement si vous êtes latin, français, espagnol ou anglais.) Cette police peut être utilisé pour vos propres posters ou des jeux vidéo, comme NES, Atari, etc (Cette police est terminée, vous pouvez maintenant le télécharger. Utiliser uniquement si vous êtes latin, français, espagnol ou anglais.)
***APRIL 2023 UPDATE***
A few more characters added and spacing of the "I" letters and their variants readjusted... Also, some characters redesigned... More to come...
An attempted recreaction of the Atari Games variation of the "Joystix", "Emulator" and "Emulogic" text fonts as used in-game and during tests from 1984 to 1998... Used in games such as Gauntlet, Xybots, Pit Fighter and Hard Drivin', among various others -- albeit with some custom deviations and extra characters NOT used in the actual text style itself... Also, upon further research, spacing between the actual letters vary by individual game (based on internal alpha tests)...
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Recreation of the character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
Recreation of the medium/high resolution character set used in the Atari ST TOS (1985), and later reused in the Atari TT and Atari Falcon.
Most special characters have been included and mapped to their respective unicode equivalents. This recreation also includes the special characters that form the Atari logo (mapped to the dingbat code points U+2768 and U+2769) and the pixelated face of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs (box drawing code points U+250C, U+2510, U+2514 and U+2518).
Only the characters present in the original set have been included.
This is a clone of Atari STRecreated directly from screenshots I took of the game. I replicated every character I could find and extended the Latin set from there.
I haven't played much of the franchise, but I always loved the typeface used in the journals and was surprised no one else had recreated it.
The ubiquitous video game font standard, likely designed by Lyle Rains of Atari; first used in 1976's "Sprint 2" by Atari, and then on until well into the 1990s. Used by most video arcade game companies, including (but not limited to): Namco, Williams Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally-Midway, Taito, Nintendo and Sega. The lower case characters are from several Atari video arcade games from 1984-1987. Plenty of alternate characters -- variations used in conjunction with the standard font, all selected from a variety of MAME32 game roms.
Clone of The Video Arcade Game Font. The ubiquitous video game font standard, likely designed by Lyle Rains of Atari; first used in 1976's "Sprint 2" by Atari, and then on until well into the 1990s. Used by most video arcade game companies, including (but not limited to): Namco, Williams Electronics, Irem, Atari, Konami, Bally-Midway, Taito, Nintendo and Sega. The lower case characters are from several Atari video arcade games from 1984-1987. Plenty of alternate characters -- variations used in conjunction with the standard font, all selected from a variety of MAME32 game roms.
This is a clone of The Video Arcade Game FontA fairly faithful re-creation of the basic Latin set (plus a few extra characters) of the Atari ST 6×6 system font, which was used for, among other things, icon labels on the desktop (where only uppercase was used).
Recreation of the pixel font from Horror Soft/Adventure Soft's "Elvira: Mistress of the Dark" (1990). This font was also used in "Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus" (1991) and "Waxworks" (1992).
Slightly expanded to complete the set of accented characters, beyond the ones used in the French and German versions of the game. Apart from this, only the characters used in the game have been included.
A recreation of the pixel font from Tecmo's "Silkworm" (1988). The majority of characters are from the NES version, but some particularly awkward ones have been replaced with their equivalent characters from the Amiga and Atari ST version of the game.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Brøderbund Software's "Shufflepuck Café" (1988) on the Amiga. The same font was used in the Atari ST and MS-DOS versions.
Extended to include any missing uppercase characters, and to provide some useful punctuation marks. One final tweak from the original is normalising the spacing of the lowercase "i" (which strangely had two pixels of spacing instead of one). The odd "j" which is one pixel taller than the "i" is retained.
Beyond that, only the characters used in the game have been included.
Recreation of the main pixel font from Bullfrog's "Syndicate" (1993) on the Amiga, Atari ST, and PC.
Updated to correct the numerals, and to add the "ç" from the language selection screen.
Only the characters used in the game have been included.