Wow hello! Of course, and thanks for your dedication in collecting and organizing this material! I love the specificity of this topic and the presentation - very well done and inspiring! ✌️😊
@@warpedmine9682 Thanks for the question! I like the Sky Fox one for the reason mentioned; looks really good and has a good story to tell (i.e. deserves a much better game). I would say the badly designed example is a trilogy of Stern games, one is shown in p.242 (Calypso). The pixelation is quite random, but they are more fascinating than the forgettable ones.
It always surprises me to see how unique a pixel font type can look when you'd think there isn't much space for wiggle room, especially when you have to convey a specific letter. This is the magic of pixel art! The interpretation section was really interesting too, I squinted my eyes on the pixel art font on the left and it looked identical to the one on the right, that's a really nice showcase for the decisions we're making and the impact of the overall silhouette as you mentioned. Thanks for sharing Brandon! This is a little gem of a book
Totally! It was interesting to see how many more options were accessible through the use of increased colour counts. Like if you're making a pixel typeface of one colour on a plain background, the options and decisions may be more clear to a certain extent - but adding in an extra colour or two for anti-aliasing opens up so many possibilities for subtle curvatures etc. :D
this book looks really cool. Does it only focus on arcade typography in English, though? It would be really interesting to see how Japanese and other languages dealt with similar limitations with different writing systems and more subtle spacing requirements
there is one section about one game that has Russian text but besides that, no other languages are in the book as the author said if he had too open of scope it would take the author ages to complete the book.
For the italicized letters I showed at 3:00, the page spread after shares some of the Japanese characters in that same style - but generally the book is quite exclusively the English alphabet. I agree though, that'd be interesting to see how other letterforms are treated in that same 8x8 space! :D
@@ahuman7543 from everything I've seen, early arcade games tended to be exclusively english, even in japan, bc japanese font would take up too much space. Instead, they tended to use simple english, as people in japan tend to have at least some knowledge of english If im off the mark here lmk
Very insightful! I've actually been watching videos about historical woodworking benches lately - there's so much to learn from reading and I definitely feel inspired to do more of that! ✨ If I didn't know any better, I would've thought the YT algorithm picked up on my recent trends and served up this video 😆 Pixel art has always been so fascinating to me partly cuz of how every artist can come to this low-rez canvas and still bring their own unique presentation of pixels. I feel like this is especially true here, where the characters exist on "mere" 8x8 grids, yet there are a hundred unique examples in this book alone! 😱
Hahaha nice! 😆 I know next to nothing about woodworking, but I can imagine that having some visual textbooks would be an interesting format for that also! And yeah totally, after seeing the number of diverse examples at such a small canvas; it makes you think that by the time you get to a sizing of 16x16, there's probably almost as much freedom as designing something by hand/vector anyway. Especially because those fonts may be displayed on a computer screen around that size also 😅
2:30 This is really neat to me cause it actually reminds me of the comparisons Apple would use at their keynotes when they first presented the "Retina Display" on the iPhone 4. It's almost like the "soft interpretation" is what the Atari font would look like made natively for Retina/4K displays, as if we jumped straight from 1981 to 2012.
Being a graphic designer myself. I went to School of Visual Arts in NYC and studied typography as a Advertising/Graphic Design major. I am actually working on a pixel project involving physical pixel bricks and this book has a lot of templates for designing typographical monospace for video games.
This was probably the best review I've seen for any product ever, it really makes me want to buy it even though I don't even do pixel art myself (yet).
That's so cool, I just made my own pixel art font earlier today, before I saw this! I'm definitely gonna have to check out the book. Thanks for making your videos, they're always a joy to watch 😊
That's very cool. I had been thinking lately that there shouldn't be many different fonts in 8x8 tiles due to the small amount of pixels available (7x7 usually), but yeah, it looks like I was very wrong! Although I was thinking about 1-bit fonts, not those with 3+ colors.
I know I'm two years late here but I really love this book, especially the commentary on each typeface, "you can tell this was done by the Gradius people because they've fucked the W in the exact same way" and so forth.
@2:20 is a great visual. Thanks for showcasing this book. I do have to say, that I actually found the italic letters in your recent videos quite hard to read. due to the limited resolution and high contrast, the letters became quite clustered and hard to read. It's a different story on CRT, as seen in your videos aswell. I found that the slight bluring helps the readability a lot, but on digital display I'd recommend either incresing the kerning (hard one because of low resolution) or anti aliasing (also tricky). I personally would go for non-italic in the first place, tho.
Real nice! Great reference. I like to put some thought into lettering and font design. Always a good exercise. I reccomend "Thinking with type" by Ellen Lupton
I wish English alphabet used at least one letter with an accent... ;) These fonts are very interesting, but in many other languages they don't provide an example how to deal with extended alphabet - I wish more attention was given to that, as not only Slavic languages need accents and tails (ą, ę, ó, ń, ź...) but even very popular French or Spanish... Anyway, nice video, Brandon, thanks for this recommendation. If this book get available at a fair price in my region, I'll be very interested to check it out :)
Have you ever come across the font that’s used in the “GAME FREAK” logo in the original Pokémon R/B/Y? I’ve tried searching for it but only ever been able to find a recreation someone did of FR/LG. Great overview, looks like an interesting study!
Do you still do pixelart analysis videos? could you do one on megaman zero games? I just love the art and animation on those. Would love to hear your thoughts on those ^^
You should make a superhero team with the Sega genesis with could be a rivel to the team made by the snes or one from the Nintendo 64 who could be in the future
I think so! As you can see, there's a lot of arcade screenshots also, so it's a nice book for casual browsing if you appreciate looking at the games and typeface designs
Hi can you make video about Transport Tycoon, i play this opensuerce game ,his name OpenTTD we making new buildings, infra and vehicles in pixel art its very interesting
I really want to have a conversation with either you or this author and constantly refer to the "fonts" no matter how many times you guys would say "typeface" trying to politely correct me 😂
I make that point clear in the book that typeface is the correct term, but stick to font mostly for space efficiency (I needed to write a whole bunch of short text).
Thanks for featuring my book! :)
Wow hello! Of course, and thanks for your dedication in collecting and organizing this material! I love the specificity of this topic and the presentation - very well done and inspiring! ✌️😊
hey i got a question what was your most favorite font and hated font in the book that you made
@@warpedmine9682 Thanks for the question! I like the Sky Fox one for the reason mentioned; looks really good and has a good story to tell (i.e. deserves a much better game). I would say the badly designed example is a trilogy of Stern games, one is shown in p.242 (Calypso). The pixelation is quite random, but they are more fascinating than the forgettable ones.
Very interesting and specific topic. Cheers!
It always surprises me to see how unique a pixel font type can look when you'd think there isn't much space for wiggle room, especially when you have to convey a specific letter. This is the magic of pixel art! The interpretation section was really interesting too, I squinted my eyes on the pixel art font on the left and it looked identical to the one on the right, that's a really nice showcase for the decisions we're making and the impact of the overall silhouette as you mentioned. Thanks for sharing Brandon! This is a little gem of a book
Totally! It was interesting to see how many more options were accessible through the use of increased colour counts. Like if you're making a pixel typeface of one colour on a plain background, the options and decisions may be more clear to a certain extent - but adding in an extra colour or two for anti-aliasing opens up so many possibilities for subtle curvatures etc. :D
this book looks really cool. Does it only focus on arcade typography in English, though? It would be really interesting to see how Japanese and other languages dealt with similar limitations with different writing systems and more subtle spacing requirements
there is one section about one game that has Russian text but besides that, no other languages are in the book as the author said if he had too open of scope it would take the author ages to complete the book.
For the italicized letters I showed at 3:00, the page spread after shares some of the Japanese characters in that same style - but generally the book is quite exclusively the English alphabet. I agree though, that'd be interesting to see how other letterforms are treated in that same 8x8 space! :D
@@ahuman7543 ahh yeah that's fair enough.. thanks!
@@BJGpixel 😁
@@ahuman7543 from everything I've seen, early arcade games tended to be exclusively english, even in japan, bc japanese font would take up too much space. Instead, they tended to use simple english, as people in japan tend to have at least some knowledge of english
If im off the mark here lmk
This channel never misses when it comes to informing other people about pixel art. Thanks, Brandon!
Very insightful! I've actually been watching videos about historical woodworking benches lately - there's so much to learn from reading and I definitely feel inspired to do more of that! ✨
If I didn't know any better, I would've thought the YT algorithm picked up on my recent trends and served up this video 😆
Pixel art has always been so fascinating to me partly cuz of how every artist can come to this low-rez canvas and still bring their own unique presentation of pixels. I feel like this is especially true here, where the characters exist on "mere" 8x8 grids, yet there are a hundred unique examples in this book alone! 😱
Hahaha nice! 😆 I know next to nothing about woodworking, but I can imagine that having some visual textbooks would be an interesting format for that also!
And yeah totally, after seeing the number of diverse examples at such a small canvas; it makes you think that by the time you get to a sizing of 16x16, there's probably almost as much freedom as designing something by hand/vector anyway. Especially because those fonts may be displayed on a computer screen around that size also 😅
The fact that you managed to fit as much information as you did into a 4 minute video is amazing.
2:30 This is really neat to me cause it actually reminds me of the comparisons Apple would use at their keynotes when they first presented the "Retina Display" on the iPhone 4. It's almost like the "soft interpretation" is what the Atari font would look like made natively for Retina/4K displays, as if we jumped straight from 1981 to 2012.
As someone who's just started being on a high for books about retro game art & history, this video couldn't have come at a better time!
Being a graphic designer myself. I went to School of Visual Arts in NYC and studied typography as a Advertising/Graphic Design major. I am actually working on a pixel project involving physical pixel bricks and this book has a lot of templates for designing typographical monospace for video games.
pixel art typography has always been one of my favourite things
I love how that book looks! Must-have literature for any pixel artist! Wonderful video, thank you!
Love this book! I’ve barely scratched its surface, it’s front and center on one of our bookshelves.
I did some pixel lettering recently. This is great!!
This was probably the best review I've seen for any product ever, it really makes me want to buy it even though I don't even do pixel art myself (yet).
Ok this is actually cool
You should do more book suggestions, loved this!
Instant buy for me. Thanks for letting us know!
I must find this book. Hopefully it's available in my corner of the world. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Oh hell yes. This is really cool. Thanks for showing!
This book I got for my birthday is really cool. ;)
That's so cool, I just made my own pixel art font earlier today, before I saw this! I'm definitely gonna have to check out the book.
Thanks for making your videos, they're always a joy to watch 😊
Thank you for making me aware of this book, I'm picking it up.
it was 2 or 3 days ago that i image searched for "arcade fonts" :) thank you for providing.
Awesome! I love books about video game design
Love this
I have this book, mostly due to my obsession with the “Atari” font and it’s evolution
ARTCADE expanded edition is phenomenal as well (Bitmap Books)
Great Reference! I had to order it immediately, Thanks!
Ooh nice, thanks for watching and hope you enjoy! :D
@@BJGpixel Thank you Mr. DrawsPicturesOutOfTinySquares, I really enjoy your work. :)
You don't really expect so much diversity in just an 8 x 8, but surprisingly, there's a lot you can do in just that space.
i started to study about game fonts to my project, this book can be handful
Really solid book, It kinda makes me want to put some of that typography in my own sprite work.
Pixel art is very nice
OH HELL YES THE VIDEO I WAS WAITING FOR
I'M GETTIN THIS BOOK
Cool idea for a book
Wow! I might buy it just as add to my collection 😁 and cool review as well! That might be new section of your channell ✌😉🖖
That's very cool. I had been thinking lately that there shouldn't be many different fonts in 8x8 tiles due to the small amount of pixels available (7x7 usually), but yeah, it looks like I was very wrong! Although I was thinking about 1-bit fonts, not those with 3+ colors.
I know I'm two years late here but I really love this book, especially the commentary on each typeface, "you can tell this was done by the Gradius people because they've fucked the W in the exact same way" and so forth.
0:53 and this concludes our intensive three-week course.
Thats a damn nice book. I'll have to check it out.
Nice
Awesome Video :D
@2:20 is a great visual. Thanks for showcasing this book. I do have to say, that I actually found the italic letters in your recent videos quite hard to read. due to the limited resolution and high contrast, the letters became quite clustered and hard to read. It's a different story on CRT, as seen in your videos aswell. I found that the slight bluring helps the readability a lot, but on digital display I'd recommend either incresing the kerning (hard one because of low resolution) or anti aliasing (also tricky). I personally would go for non-italic in the first place, tho.
Spent so much time making these on the atari st back in the day to be used in a hacking groups menu scrolling text
nice. Typography is epic
Real nice! Great reference. I like to put some thought into lettering and font design. Always a good exercise. I reccomend "Thinking with type" by Ellen Lupton
cool pixel art fonts :)
I wish English alphabet used at least one letter with an accent... ;) These fonts are very interesting, but in many other languages they don't provide an example how to deal with extended alphabet - I wish more attention was given to that, as not only Slavic languages need accents and tails (ą, ę, ó, ń, ź...) but even very popular French or Spanish...
Anyway, nice video, Brandon, thanks for this recommendation. If this book get available at a fair price in my region, I'll be very interested to check it out :)
Have you ever come across the font that’s used in the “GAME FREAK” logo in the original Pokémon R/B/Y? I’ve tried searching for it but only ever been able to find a recreation someone did of FR/LG. Great overview, looks like an interesting study!
woo this is so awesome
Why do kids insist on saying when they arrive
Amazing book. Thanks for sharing. Now, do I hunt down a copy....?
khermoso!
I can't believe some of those are only 8x8.
Damn this looks really interesting, I wish I could get it
Great vid, where can i buy it?
Do you still do pixelart analysis videos? could you do one on megaman zero games? I just love the art and animation on those. Would love to hear your thoughts on those ^^
Can you make a video about setting up photoshop for pixel art?
You should make a superhero team with the Sega genesis with could be a rivel to the team made by the snes or one from the Nintendo 64 who could be in the future
Black pixel font 0:08
Would you recommend this book for just casually reading it (so not just for people who want to create pixel fonts)?
I think so! As you can see, there's a lot of arcade screenshots also, so it's a nice book for casual browsing if you appreciate looking at the games and typeface designs
Arabic in this style would be really interesting
Hi can you make video about Transport Tycoon, i play this opensuerce game ,his name OpenTTD we making new buildings, infra and vehicles in pixel art its very interesting
Slach graphic development
Mmmm, I'm just starting in pixel art as a hobby, but this book it's taking all my attention, it is worth checking it right?
Oh wow, this book is surprisingly affordable.
I really want to have a conversation with either you or this author and constantly refer to the "fonts" no matter how many times you guys would say "typeface" trying to politely correct me 😂
I make that point clear in the book that typeface is the correct term, but stick to font mostly for space efficiency (I needed to write a whole bunch of short text).
@@Toschez I just like annoying people 😂
will you be adding any more designs to your redbubble? 👀
1000 like!
hm
Nice