52 min
Toshi Omagari, Type Designer and Video Game Font Historian The Tiny Typecast
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Toshi Omagari studied Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, Japan, and then got his master's in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in England. From 2012 to 2020, he worked at Monotype, one of the leading digital type foundries, with roots that date back well over a century. During that time, he created his own faces and revivals, including a major reworking and expansion of five typefaces created by Berthold Wolpe. Toshi runs his own font studio now, and lectures and teaches.
His 2019 book, Arcade Game Typography, is an incredible deep dive into the 8-by-8 pixel fonts used in early video game systems and arcade consoles.
Toshi Omagari studied Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, Japan, and then got his master's in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in England. From 2012 to 2020, he worked at Monotype, one of the leading digital type foundries, with roots that date back well over a century. During that time, he created his own faces and revivals, including a major reworking and expansion of five typefaces created by Berthold Wolpe. Toshi runs his own font studio now, and lectures and teaches.
His 2019 book, Arcade Game Typography, is an incredible deep dive into the 8-by-8 pixel fonts used in early video game systems and arcade consoles.
52 min