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From the movie
I present to you:
By Michael Walden
Created: 2025-06-08 - Updated: 2025-07-11
On watching the movie WarGames I saw the on-screen title logo materialize where all of the characters in the title "WarGames" are cycled through the characters of the alphabet. Additionally all of the intro credits contain four more characters. After seeing those, I thought to myself that there is sufficient information present on-screen to produce a replica font on my computer. Using all of those together I manually transcribed all of the characters from all of the on-screen instances of each character plus some additional work on my part to create missing characters to produce a faithful reproduction of the title font displayed in the movie. My WarGames Title fonts bring a complete 95 character printable ASCII font to life on your computer! For the record, I created characters 0 to 9 and all of the symbols other than hyphen, period, comma, and ampersand, for a total of 38 characters. That is over 1/3 of the characters that were made by myself. The on-screen title font cried out to me "Make a reproduction font," so I did! These WarGames Title Fonts were a long time in the making starting back on 2005-10-30 when I transcribed the on-screen bitmaps into text files as a matrix for each character of "#" characters for "on" pixels and "." characters for "off" pixels. Later on 2007-09-23 I migrated the text matrices into the Microsoft Windows bitmapped .FON versions. I felt that it was not appropriate to release those .FON fonts alone. I felt that TrueType .TTF versions of the fonts were a requirement to have included in the font pack. It was not until 2025 that I was able to produce the .TTF versions. So now I present to you the complete font pack.
The font pack contains a total of 36 operating system font files.
Font file names with sizes that appear crisp on-screen in Windows
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WarGames Title D F M.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 13x18)
WarGames Title D O M.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D T M.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title N F M.fon - Size 7, 12, 19, 26 (Char. resolution: 13x09)
WarGames Title N O M.otf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title N T M.ttf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title R F M.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 13x18)
WarGames Title R O M.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title R T M.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D F M 2.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 14x18)
WarGames Title D O M 2.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D T M 2.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title N F M 2.fon - Size 7, 12, 19, 26 (Char. resolution: 14x09)
WarGames Title N O M 2.otf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title N T M 2.ttf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title R F M 2.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 14x18)
WarGames Title R O M 2.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title R T M 2.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D F P.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 13(max)x18)
WarGames Title D O P.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D T P.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title N F P.fon - Size 7, 12, 19, 26 (Char. resolution: 13(max)x09)
WarGames Title N O P.otf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title N T P.ttf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title R F P.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 13(max)x18)
WarGames Title R O P.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title R T P.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D F P 2.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 14(max)x18)
WarGames Title D O P 2.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title D T P 2.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title N F P 2.fon - Size 7, 12, 19, 26 (Char. resolution: 14(max)x09)
WarGames Title N O P 2.otf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title N T P 2.ttf - Size 7, 20, 34, 47
WarGames Title R F P 2.fon - Size 14, 24, 38, 51 (Char. resolution: 14(max)x18)
WarGames Title R O P 2.otf - Size 27, 34, 47
WarGames Title R T P 2.ttf - Size 27, 34, 47
The font pack contains a total of 24 web page font files.
Font file names with sizes that appear crisp on-screen on web pages
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WarGames Title N W M.woff - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title N W M.woff2 - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title D W M.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title D W M.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W M.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W M.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title N W M 2.woff - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title N W M 2.woff2 - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title D W M 2.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title D W M 2.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W M 2.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W M 2.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title N W P.woff - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title N W P.woff2 - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title D W P.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title D W P.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W P.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W P.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title N W P 2.woff - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title N W P 2.woff2 - 9px, 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px
WarGames Title D W P 2.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title D W P 2.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W P 2.woff - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
WarGames Title R W P 2.woff2 - 18px, 27px, 36px, 45px, 54px, 63px, 72px, 81px
Key for single letters in font names
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N = Normal - Raw bitmap.
D = Double - Doubled every row to vertically stretch font.
R = Raster - Row data interleaved with blank rows to simulate raster lines.
F = .fon Microsoft Windows bitmapped font
O = .otf OpenType font
T = .ttf TrueType font
W = .woff and .woff2 Web Open Font Format
M = Monospaced font
P = Proportional font
2 = Two pixel wide gap between characters
You can think of the fonts as containing three main fonts: N, D, and R.
N: WarGames Title Normal
D: WarGames Title Double
R: WarGames Title Raster
The fonts have the F, O, and T letters to distinguish one font format file
from the others when more than one is installed in Windows.
The new version 2.0 of my WarGames fonts now have web fonts (.WOFF and .WOFF2)
officially supported in the font pack. The 1.0 version had hacked web fonts as
a result of not being able to create new web fonts from FontForge. I have
discovered the root cause for not being able to make the web fonts from
FontForge which is apparently due to a bug in FontForge with its support
of OS/2 Version 5 fonts. To fix this, I select OS/2 Version 4 fonts in
FontForge by making the following setting:
Element > Font Info... > OS/2 > Misc. > OS/2 Version [4]
The OS/2 Version 4 setting also applies to making proper headers in .TTF and
.OTF fonts as well. Some software might have an issue with using OS/2 Version
5 fonts from FontForge. So, I recommend updating from my version 1.0 .TTF and
.OTF fonts (which were using OS/2 Version 5) to the new version 2.0 fonts even
though the version 1.0 fonts seem to work just fine.
The on-screen WarGames title font is a proportional font as based on the
letters "Ii" and the punctuation characters ",-.". With that in mind, in
version 2.0 of my WarGames Title fonts, I have made two versions of the fonts
(as suggested by VileR), WarGames Title Proportional and WarGames Title
Monospaced. Version 1.0 only had a single version of the WarGames Title Font
family that was monospaced with the proportional characters centered in their
character cells, which was not as faithful to the on-screen font as the new
proportional family of fonts. The following twenty seven characters were
narrowed and made proportional in the Proportional fonts:
<SPACE>!"'(),-./47:;<>I[\]^`i{|}~
The new version of the Monospaced family of fonts has all of its characters the
same as the on-screen ones with the exception of the following three characters
"-Ii". These have been made wider to appear as in a monospaced type font. The
rest of the proportional characters are centered in their character cells.
While making the proportional and monospaced versions, I noticed that the
character spacing in my WarGames Title fonts v1.0 were only one pixel wide, but
it should actually be mostly two pixels wide based on the on-screen character
spacing. I say "mostly" since the spacing is somewhat inconsistent and not
exactly two pixels wide (more like 1.5 pixels wide). Also, the on-screen
title font has a black border around the character perimeters. In my fonts
there is no border. In response to this, the fonts in my WarGames Title fonts
pack have been divided into two categories, one with two pixel wide character
spacing, as denoted with a "2" at the end of its name and ones without the two
at the end of their name, which are only one pixel wide spacing. I will leave
it up to you to choose which one you prefer. In my opinion the one pixel wide
spaced fonts are too narrow spacing and the two pixel wide spaced fonts are
OK. I would suggest using the two pixel wide version since it is easier to
read over the one pixel wide spacing version.
A general note on these WarGames fonts is that on real life CRTs the raster
gaps are not the same height as the raster scanline pixels. This leads to the
Double and Raster versions of my fonts appearing a little too tall and the
Normal version of my fonts being a little too short when compared to the on-
screen fonts. Unfortunately there is no way to resolve this issue without
making the fonts larger, which I will not do for now.
Font samples
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Here are the primary 12 fonts shown in a large size to demonstrate their
appearance.
WarGames Title Normal Monospaced
WarGames Title Double Monospaced
WarGames Title Raster Monospaced
WarGames Title Normal Monospaced 2
WarGames Title Double Monospaced 2
WarGames Title Raster Monospaced 2
WarGames Title Normal Proportional
WarGames Title Double Proportional
WarGames Title Raster Proportional
WarGames Title Normal Proportional 2
WarGames Title Double Proportional 2
WarGames Title Raster Proportional 2
Note: I am of the opinion that these fonts are novelty fonts and not for serious use in complete documents. They are good for titles but too difficult to read for the main body text. But go ahead and use them everywhere if you dare!
Download the latest release font pack file here:
WarGames Title Fonts v2.0.zip - Date: 2025-07-11 - Size: 255 KB Older versions: WarGames Title Fonts v1.0.zip - Date: 2025-06-08 - Size: 51 KB Enjoy!
* Unzip
* Install
On Windows, Double click on a .fon, ttf or .otf font to preview the font.
Click on the "Install" button on the pane to install the font.
On macOS, Double click a .ttf or .otf file. Click "Install Font" in the
preview window.
On Linux, Create a local fonts directory if one does not exist:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
Copy your .ttf or .otf file to this directory:
cp /path/to/your/font.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/
Refresh the font cache:
fc-cache -f -v
To confirm your fonts are properly installed, you can check the
available fonts: fc-list | grep "FontName"
When configuring software such as your text editor, email client, etc. or when creating documents (graphics), you can use these fonts to relive the WarGames movie title and credits (but with your own text) that you experienced in the past. Keep in mind that these fonts do not have any non-English characters in them. Font Color Scheme - - - - - - - - - For best results, it is recommended to use these fonts with a red (#FF0000) foreground and a black (#000000) background.
As embedded in each font: "Transcribed and filled in by Michael Walden 2007 CC BY-NC-SA." The "filled in" part relates to the characters that I created that were not shown on-screen. Please adhere to the following license agreement when using, modifying, or redistributing these WarGames Title fonts. The WarGames font files in this pack (.TTF, .OTF and .FON) are my own work, hereby licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. https://CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
I put this section here so that you do not miss it all the way at the bottom. Please view at least the following section "WarGames on-screen title and intro credits images" to see WarGames related content that relates to these fonts. If you find this post interesting or useful, please share it on your social media platform of choice! When you have finished reading here, be sure to see the companion web page to this one at WarGames Terminal Fonts by Michael Walden. https://MW.Rat.bz/wgterm Lastly, you might also like my WarGames Magazine Identified post from 2013-12-17 https://MW.Rat.bz/wgmag.
Here are all 16 WarGames on-screen title and intro credits images for you to look at to compare to my transcribed version in my WarGames Title Raster Proportional 2 Font. Just to be clear, the reason I have included this section here is to demonstrate the accuracy of the WarGames Title Double Font to replicate the font seen on-screen in the movie. Prior to the video frame in Fig. 01 below, there are 103 frames for the title logo materialization animation sequence. The total animation time is about 3.44 seconds. (spanning 06:36 to 06:40) The first 44 frames are all that is necessary to get the 26 uppercase and 26 lowercase letters. It is unnecessary to include images of all 103 frames here. They just show WarGames in various different incorrect spellings.
Fig. 01. (6:41) WarGames | |
Fig. 02. (6:45) Matthew Broderick | |
Fig. 03. (6:50) Dabney Coleman | |
Fig. 04. (6:57) John Wood | |
Fig. 05. (7:01) Ally Sheedy | |
Fig. 06. (7:07) co-starring - Barry Corbin - Juanin Clay | |
Fig. 07. (7:30) Kent Williams - Dennis Lipscomb - Joe Dorsey | |
Fig. 08. (7:41) executive producer - Leonard Goldberg | |
Fig. 09. (7:48) music by - Arthur B. Rubinstein | |
Fig. 10. (8:00) casting - Wally Nicita | |
Fig. 11. (8:14) editor - Tom Rolf, a.c.e. | |
Fig. 12. (8:25) production designer - Angelo P. Graham | |
Fig. 13. (8:33) director of photography - William A. Fraker, a.s.c. | |
Fig. 14. (8:43) written by - Lawrence Lasker & - Walter F. Parkes | |
Fig. 15. (8:50) produced by - Harold Schneider | |
Fig. 16. (9:18) directed by - John Badham |
(Note: all "-" characters above, except in "co-starring," are line breaks.)
Rebecca G. Bettencourt https://www.KreativeKorp.com for creating her Bits'n' Picas font utility, without which these fonts would not exist. George Williams and the FontForge Project for creating his FontForge font editor program, without which these fonts would not exist. hukka for his Bitmap font creation tool Fony, without which these fonts would not exist. John Cristy and ImageMagick Studio LLC for his image conversion utility, without which these fonts would not exist. VileR https://int10h.org for giving guidance in creating good looking .TTF fonts using Bits'n'Picas with FontForge. Chris R. for taking me to see WarGames at the movie theater in 1983.
ImageMagick for text matrix (.xpm) to image (.png) conversion https://ImageMagick.org Fony 1.4.7 by hukka for Bitmap font creation http://hukka.ncn.fi/?fony Bits'n'Picas by Kreative Korp / Rebecca G. Bettencourt for Bitmap-to-outline vectorization https://GitHub.com/kreativekorp/bitsnpicas FontForge by George Williams and the FontForge Project for TrueType font editing, fine-tuning, re-encoding etc. https://FontForge.org/en-US/
All WarGames movie images copyright (c) MGM / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. WarGames is a trademark of MGM / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. I do not claim any rights to the original raster binary character set data, which this work is based on. Credit for those goes to their respective designers. "In the United States, the shapes of typefaces are not eligible for copyright but may be protected by design patent" See more here: https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces
WarGames - Wikipedia https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
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