Why Some Video Game Fonts Are Better Than Others. What makes video game fonts look good? And why does Final Fantasy VI’s Steam and i. OS text feel so amateurish? Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’ve got an expert typographer to give us the answers.
First, Kirk and I talk Mario + Rabbids before jumping into news like. Watch XOXO Download. L. A. Noire Switch (1. Apple announcements (2. Pewdiepie’s racial slurs (3. Then Bethany Heck, a design director at Vox Media and typographer, hops on the show (4.
Kirk and I close things out with a brief chat about getting ready to run the Destiny 2 raid blindly (1: 0. You can get the MP3 right here.)So what makes Final Fantasy VI’s font look so awful on Steam and i. OS? “Some of it’s technology,” Heck said. One of the reason that older versions of games feel nicer in terms of typography is that there’s lower pixel density, they’re using pixel fonts.
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So everything’s having to be through this filter of it has the same resolution, and you’re having to either choose existing pixel fonts or draw new pixel fonts that fit within those constraints. In those cases, the limitations actually serve the art.”For remakes, Heck said, the original typefaces would look out of place. So the developers of a remake like Final Fantasy VI might have to make decisions based on a lot of factors, including the fact that some phones might not support fancier- looking fonts. You end up in a lot of cases with somebody just throwing in Helvetica or Arial or some very basic alternative, just because there’s a lot of new questions that arise or work that would have to be fun to make those replacements,” Heck said.
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