Inspired by the recent tenuously-related-to-Dreamcast article (I kid, Tom. :P ) and inspired by a book on different typefaces, I thought about our own lovely Dreamcast:
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Dreamcast_logo.svg/220px-Dreamcast_logo.svg.png) |
No nonsense, elegant |
The logo featured is a simple, elegant one. It doesn't wear on the eyes, unlike certain fonts which will go unmentioned (coughinserthatedfontnameherecough) although extended use might tire one a bit. Still, it would be a nice font to have on hand, just in case.
I assumed that the search would be difficult, as some fonts look almost exactly like each other, and many companies have custom lettering made up for a specific purpose. It would take hours - or at the very least, several minutes.
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vKxlGxzSiyPMoqfmgG-4ec5M081oZOJZQOuQF-mzUGwZfSTEr_n7lG4_NVf8q3pBW8eRoRe21KKIoyGC8eZf9GtH3TyApvEzukEIxGjXTg6C8yjN__ML2_zsr9cMeXWjZgrR9LLgi9Xw68EpgIjRi6gyjn_x5AeRPW2G5dpoIhxTZ0-IrZeKvYbEnGelkFN6YNgysd_MNRms_IwIpyIEJKZ7HjMCiz_KThfmyR7uGeHjCRYcU=s0-d) |
Detective time! |
Turns out, nope. There were the false leads of Tahoma, Myriad and Verdana - but even a cursory examination showed this to be false. Fortunately, the site My Fonts came to the rescue, positing the font Basilea (not to be confused with Basilia, a completely different font). Upon downloading the font and trying it myself, I found it to be a 98% match.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SnQ_2ctY2xyYJ3d4kHXVPbqWijioWiXA4GCH8M84v6aHxRjoR7saWzYTdqz3iGrOQn6FW17UqsGffWnLPjkcC-m74lkqltWWjXXOmZWARYoe9M35A5CZmcEsjdzWweREs3xbpw/s320/Atari+Jaguar+in+Dreamcast+Font+%2528Basilea%2529.png) |
Lovely, eh Tom? |
By way of a little background, all I could discover was a My Fonts' user noting that it was "designed by Markus Low in 1965." Further search reveals that it won the "
1965 VGC National Type Face Design Competition."
And there you have it. Another lovely piece of trivia about our beloved console.