Reviving My Old Arcade Font
Back in the days when Adobe Flash was everywhere, I spent countless late nights making little Flash games — mostly for fun, often just to see what I could pull off. I loved building tiny worlds that lived in the browser, and one of the things that always fascinated me was how the look of a game could make it feel like a real arcade experience.
That’s when I thought: Why not make my own font?
Like many game developers of that era, I was inspired by the classic arcade typefaces of the 80s — the kind you’d see on glowing CRT screens, drawing you in with bold letters and pixel-perfect charm. But I wanted to give it my own twist. Most arcade fonts back then were monospaced (every letter had the same width), which made sense for old hardware. For my games though, I wanted something a little smoother — so I designed a proportional version, where letters breathe more naturally next to each other.
I put the font up for free download on my old site, voodooscience.com, and even linked it on mextremel.com (a little time capsule of the early internet right there). To my surprise, people actually grabbed it and used it in their projects.
Now, years later, I’ve decided to bring it back.
So here it is again — my arcade-inspired proportional font, free to download and free to use. It’s a piece of my creative history, and if you find a use for it in your own projects, that makes me happy all over again.
Have fun with it — and maybe it’ll add just the right touch of nostalgia to whatever you’re building.