Tinstar font

Archive entry by Ste Pickford on Mon, 21 Sep 2009
Subject: Tinstar

This is a nice little wild-west style font that I did for Tin Star, the SNES light gun game we did for Nintendo in 1994, a contract they gave us as some kind of compensation for not giving us the follow up to Ken Griffey Baseball (that went to Rare), despite us doing a brilliant job on the first Ken Griffey game.

The characters are all 16 pixels high, and 16 pixels max (for upper case) or 8 pixels max (for lower case) wide. Each character has its own width though, and they should be positioned horizontally according to their width value.

Its not a good font for reading large chunks of text in - it was really designed with titles and headings in mind. Unfortunately Tin Star had loads of cut scenes, with a long (and very humorous) script, and we made the mistake of expecting players to read it all in this thematically appropriate, but not very readable font.

You live and learn!

Tags: font, pixel art, wild west, snes

Follow up post: Powerfest Font

Predecessor post: Maximum Carnage font

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