Arcade Game Typography Is The Perfect Book for Typophiles

Looking for a new book to enjoy? Or maybe you just need a new coffee table fixture. Whichever the case may be, if you’re a typophile (no, it’s not a person who likes typos – but you’d already know that if you were a typophile, yes?), then Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type is the next thing on your to-buy list.

Authored by Toshi Omagari, typeface designer at Monotype UK, and initiate designer at Tabular Type Foundry, Arcade Game Typography is a must-have in your book collection. It’s not just about typography, either. The book is the juxtaposition of fonts and arcade games dating back to the 1970s. And goes on through to the 1990s.

We know that the love for arcade games, type, and pixel art spans generations, so no matter if you’re a baby boomer, a Gen X-er, or a millennial. Arcade Game Typography is going to tickle your fancy. All 272 pages of it.

This book is a groundbreaker in that it is the first-ever collection of pixelated type from arcade games. If you spent (or spend) a considerable amount of time playing Pac-Man, Super Sprint, Marble Madness, and Space Harrier, you will definitely recognize the fonts. But even if you can’t identify all of them, the accompanying commentary by Toshi Omagari will get you up to speed.

The gamer in you will also be delighted with the game screenshots paired with their corresponding fonts.

Amazon is releasing the book on November 3 for $34.95, but you can pre-order now for $24.47. For more bragging rights, head on over to ReadOnlyMemory and grab a special edition (only 1,000 copies printed) for GBP35.