Type O Negative Posted November 30, 2023 Posted November 30, 2023 Hi! I'm trying to (narrow down my search) in order to identify an unusual typeface on a 1991 Japanese game cartridge. It's basically Maru Gothic, but with line weights on certain characters (ト く & に) for example. Already looked in Adobe fonts, fontworks.co.jp and myfonts.com and not yet seen anything close. Any ideas?
Type O Negative Posted December 1, 2023 Author Posted December 1, 2023 Close...but no banana. The ku く character is very distinct. (Look at the top and bottom half in terms of line weight) After going down a rabbit hole yesterday... I came up with: Just because it was around thirty years ago doesn't automatically mean it'll still be around today. = It might still exist - but in a back catalog such as Shaken fonts which will take more time to compare and contrast. I'll keep looking - just because A) it's still bugging me ( and it needs to be found!) B) it's very different.
MissNobody Posted December 1, 2023 Posted December 1, 2023 Not every typeface in a real world is scanned, and converted into a font file. It just might not exist in a digital form.
Type O Negative Posted December 1, 2023 Author Posted December 1, 2023 It may have been done on PAVO with a (digital/analog) phototypesetting (写真植字) machine. But it would still exist as a typeface.
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