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M@ilbox
Atari
font
I read your interesting article on the Atari
font/script. What caught my eye
and was rather funny was the graphic you discuss under the title
"Miscellaneous sightings". That Atari multi-coloured Fuji with the strapline
"Atari Video Game Systems" was one I made in 1999 for my old web site "The
Atari Time Machine". The scan of the Fuji is from the back of the 1984 2600
VCS manual (Atari UK), but the strapline was of course added by myself using
the font "Atarian", which is still available on-line. It was one of
the closest Atari fonts available back then in TTF
format.
![[Image: Atari font]](images/font.gif)
Interestingly, one of the closest Atari fonts you can get is the
"HARI" font. This was
also advertised for sale with some other fonts around 1987. I'll dig the
advert out for you if you need it. It is a bold version, not sure if there
was a medium or light version. It is closer to the Atari Corp. utilisation
than the Mumba or Hammer Fat versions. I will try and get
the Atari Corp. fonts they used in-house as soon as we hunt them
down.
Karl
Morris, Ireland
http://www.atari-explorer.com
Shiuming
Lai replies
Thanks, Karl, and by
the way, the face-lifted Atari Explorer
site is looking better than ever! That
looks like a quite authentic font but a
few characters stand out as looking unlike
what I have seen to be the most up to date
pre-Hasbro/Infogrames Atari font. The zero
looks too oval, the round parts of the digits
6 and 9 don't look round enough and the
letter "G" appears to be of the
style of the light version of the font,
with a vertical rather than horizontal stroke
defining it as a "G". Another
good find, though, thanks for sharing that
with us and I hope to see more examples
if you can dig them out, I never cease to
be impressed by the stuff you guys dig up
at the Atari Historical Society!
![[Divider]](images/divide.gif)
Another one...
I just read your article about the Atari font! Wow, like
that! Always fascinating how deep you can dive in a topic which I could
comment by no more than one sentence.
The other thing is: thumbs up
for your great work! I know that such a hobby magazine means much much work
and it lives from the user comments and contributions. So I want to give
you some feedback: I love your magazine! Yes that's it!
Thomas Havemeister,
Germany
Shiuming
Lai replies
Thanks for your support,
Thomas, I remember how much you enjoyed
the Atari logo article, so that gave me
the idea to write this one! You're right,
MyAtari is a lot of work, but it's worth
it!
Interestingly,
I just typed "Atari font" into
Google and that article was the third result,
while "Atari logo" brings up MyAtari's
two Atari logo articles (the second by Uncle
Harry) as the first and second results!
Atari-Home
says
I just read the article in myatari.net issue Jan 05. Yeah, I
know it is a little bit late to read but better late than never. What a
great article! I really liked your comparisons between the Atari fonts. Keep on writing such interesting lines...
Hopefully, myatari will get
on the next issue.
Greetings from Europe.
Johannes
Hädrich, Germany
http://www.atari-home.de
Shiuming
Lai replies
Good to hear from you
again, Johannes, glad you liked it. Yes,
we're still chugging away trying to catch
up! Are you coming to JagFest UK this year?
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