8 pixels is all you need

Abstract: Limitation is a fantastic ingredient for creativity. In the early days of video games, you did not have a luxury to use retail fonts on screen and developers had to make their own in a pixel grid of multiples of 4, the most common being 8*8 pixels in monospace letter width. While it may sound very restricting for a professional type designer, you will be proven absolutely wrong by the incredible range of creativity in the arcade games from the ’80s and ’90s. This talk is going to be a slideshow of the very best fonts I gathered from more than 8000 arcade games.