MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: MAME Artwork Update

>The font used for the Knights in Armor instructions appears to be a version of "Univers".
>Unfortunately the version used is not the same as the versions I've seen digitized.

Thanks for looking over the font style. The fact that any info of Knights in Armor is documented at this time is amazing itself (I am hoping the two proms can be added and supported in MAME later even though it is a non-cpu hardware game) because the only thing that was available up until 2013 when I got a manual of the game was the Knights in Armor flyer and that was it. Stiletto and myself had doubts anything else would ever turn up for Knights in Armor. I only saw the game in person once sometime in 1976 and that was it.

>Before personal computers, there was a version of Univers created for an early typesetting
>system that had the characters forced to fit within a small set of predetermined widths. It
>was an early attempt to bridge the gap between a typewriter (with all characters being the
>same width) and real typesetting. In your scanned sample, the character shapes match
>Univers, but some characters are narrowed (ex: S, W, e) and some are widened (ex: Y). The
>cent symbol is a lower case c with a slash typed over it.

imo it would have been interesting info of which company did the instructions card text for the video game company Project Support Engineering back in the mid 1970s. Other than what Keith Smith has documented and put together about PSE along with other 1970s era companies, that's about it. It's a company that lasted about 5 or 6 years and disappeared.

As for instruction card text/fonts itself, I was fortunate that only one piece was missing from the letter size white paper. It has two columns of different pricing settings and fortunately the top corner was only one clipped out. The rest are still on the scan and it can be restored to complete paper with some editing program work.

>Maybe it doesn't matter. I'm not sure how picky collectors are.

To me, it would have been ideal to know if there was an actual font set that matches what is shown on the Knights in Armor operator coin credits instructions scan if a sheet had to be created from scratch, but it sounds like someone would have to sit down with a font editing software program and spend many hours just to create a comparable font style that matches what was used with Knights in Armor operator instructions settings.