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Title: black box font
Post by coinheaven on 02. Nov 2006 at 12:54

anybody know what font they used for the black box games?

Title: Re: black box font
Post by Jedi QuestMaster on 02. Nov 2006 at 15:52

I don't know, but I think I used Ariel when designing my Yie Ar Kung-Fu label:

What do you think? Close enough?

Title: Re: black box font
Post by NESaholic on 02. Nov 2006 at 16:21

I don't know why exactly but i think it was the easiest way to go back then. Also to keep it recognisable my guess would be.

Title: Re: black box font
Post by extrarice on 02. Nov 2006 at 21:23

It looks like a fairly generic Helvetica/Arial/sans-serif font, bold or heavy, then italicized/obliqued or tilted to the right a smidge.

Would be simple to pull off in Illustrator. Heck, get enough scans of the black-label carts and you might be able to create your own font with all characters of the Alphabet.

Title: Re: black box font
Post by coinheaven on 05. Nov 2006 at 12:37

[Heck, get enough scans of the black-label carts and you might be able to create your own font with all characters of the Alphabet.[/quote]

haha, thats a great idea. maybe if im really bored someday. nice yie ar kung fu label as well.