Welcome to a new series based on my twitter project Fontendo where we identify and examine fonts obscure and otherwise from games and other media.

Today we take a look at how Nintendo designed the fonts used in its Splatoon series.

~Video Chapters~

0:00 A brief intro to Japanese type foundries

1:42 Splatoon 1's font and its Victorian origin

5:24 Rodin to Rowdy

7:25 Splatoon 2's font and some strange similarities...

9:56 Outro; further information



Fonts mentioned in this video, in order of appearance:

Pop Happiness: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/po...

New Cezanne Pro DB: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/ne...

Script MT Bold: https://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/m...

Huakang Xin Zongyiti W9: https://www.dynacw.com.hk/en/product/...

Splatoon Replica Font: http://fizzystack.web.fc2.com/paintba...

Pop Joy: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/po...

Showcard Gothic: https://docs.microsoft.com/enus/typo...

Dreamland: https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/dre...

Rowdy: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/ro...

Rodin: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/ro...

Kurokane: https://fontworks.co.jp/fontsearch/ku...

Rat Fink font family: https://houseind.com/hi/ratfink

Memoir: http://modi.jpn.org/font_memoir.php



Outro Music by SiivaGunner:    / siivagunner  



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