1962-1992 Nihon Electric Company Typeface

[Psycho Punch]

Anyone up to the challenge of creating a rasterized font of the NEC typeface?

I think I've found it... well at least what it was based on. The font for the NEC logo, yes that red one that was in the box of many games and devices.



1910 patent to an (early?) version of the Western Electric logo, with all characters A-Z 0-9: http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/pdf/40862.pdf
Website with some cool info about Western Electric (seriously there's some interesting stuff in there about the company) plus a .ttf version of the text design:
wayback.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/westernelectric_history.html
wayback.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/images/Hawthorn.TTF

Article that helped me find this info:
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Basically it's hard as hell to find stuff on the internet, but when you find the right keywords to feed Google it's pretty easy.

[Psycho Punch]

Samsung-NEC partnership, another example of the NEC font:

/sansung-nec-made-in-korea.jpg

[NightWolve]

Hey, a vacuum tube, I used to like taking them out of old TVs and throwing them on the playground as a kid for that nice pop sound they'd make upon impact! ;)

[esteban]

I love learning about this!

Thank you.

Great post. 

[SuperPlay]

Great stuff, thanks for sharing

[SuperGrafx]

Interesting stuff.  I always loved the older style NEC logo font.
Seemed pretty unique, simple and distinctive in comparison to domestic logos.

[Ninja Spirit]

Thought I'd throw this in....

[jelloslug]

What I want is the font used on the orange label game spines and cards.