Games that use Handel Gothic

Video games that use the font Handel Gothic, beloved sci-fi font of the late 90s and early 2000s, famously used in Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Halo. Games in this list will typically use the typeface as either part of the UI or as the games logo, exceptions and standout cases will be mentioned in the notes.

Please note that several games, like Dead or Alive 2 or Sega Rally 2 make use of the similar yet distinct Terminator typeface. It is easy to mistake one for the other considering their shared focus on rounded forms and a distinctly curved capital E, but the Terminator typeface is entirely unrelated, being derived from the Earth typeface and designed for the James Cameron film of the same name.

This entry is a stand in for the game.com as a whole, which used Handel Gothic for the handheld's logo
Used on the Maverick Introduction screens. "He betrayed the irregular hunters and hid himself inside a volcano."
This entry is standing in for the studio of Idea Factory as a whole, who has been using Handel Gothic for their logo since this, their very first game.
God Bless the artists who made a bitmap font of Handel Gothic for this games text and menus
Used in the classic DS9 Opening Credit Roll
Used for the text that pops up in matches, "SET 1", "READY", "WINNER" etc.
Here on a technicality. The logo and title screen for the japanese release, Zelda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Triforce includes the Super Famicom logo, which was rendered in Handel Gothic. https://i.imgur.com/BTFJBTm.png

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9 months ago

How did I only just see the Handel Gothic on the mass effect title. I use this font every day.


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