TITLE
Custom Fonts for Pentiment
AUTHOR
Riley Cran
PUBLICATION
Lettermatic
YEAR
2022
ARTICLE TYPE
Postmortem
FROM THE ARTICLE
The year was 2019. I was sitting on my living room couch playing The Outer Worlds, the latest release from Obsidian Entertainment, traveling through the solar system of Halcyon with my ragtag crew I’d assembled on my journey. I found myself on the planet of Terra 2, speaking with a random NPC standing on the streets of Byzantium, when I burst out into laughter over their dialogue. The character explained that her Grandfather had designed a font used in Byzantium, or rather he had “described the idea of it to their font development team.” I thought to myself “I need to work with the company that would put this line of dialogue in this game.” Little did I know that a couple years later, we’d be doing just that with Josh Sawyer, Studio Design Director at Obsidian, for the new game he was directing, Pentiment.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Obsidian Entertainment
GAMES MENTIONED
Pentiment
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Dave Bailey
Danelle Cheney
Heather Cran
Alec Frey
Hannah Kennedy
Brett Klooster
Josh Sawyer
ALTERNATE LINK
Archived Copy @ Internet Archive
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