World of WarCraft Font

A friend in the publishing world tipped me off to this article about Folkard: The World of Warcraft Font. Not being a typesetter myself, I’d never given the WoW font much thought, but it is pretty distinctive, you can even recognize Chinese WarCraft posters without being able to read Chinese because of the particular colors and font (even in Mandarin) on the logo.

Folkard is a great font choice for a fantasy game because it is the essence of classical fantasy. It is based on hand lettering done by Charles Folkard in the early 1900s for a collection of fairy stories from Scandinavia. It was developed into a font by Dave Nalle in 1993, some years before it was discovered and used in World of Warcraft. Charles Folkard is best known today for his classic illustrations for Pinnochio, but most of his work was in illustrating classic myths and legends from different cultures, with each book including unique hand lettering for the titles and picture captions. This particular style of lettering was also popular with other fantasy artists, but Folkard’s variation with the combination of celtic-style lowercase letters and swashed capital letters is particularly striking, which is why we made a font of it and why Blizzard chose it to use in World of Warcraft.

Via Folkard: The World of Warcraft Font | Fontcraft: Scriptorium Fonts, Art and Design

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  By Wow account, August 28, 2009 @ 10:03 am

  Good post

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