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                                 From the movie

                                I present to you:

WarGames Title Fonts

                                By Michael Walden

                    Created: 2025-06-08 - Updated: 2025-06-08

Introduction

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 WarGames Title Fonts Font Pack

The font pack contains a total of nine font files.

Font file names with sizes that appear crisp on-screen in Windows
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WarGames Title D F.fon - Size 14, 24, 38 (Character resolution: 13x18)
WarGames Title D O.otf - Size 27
WarGames Title D T.ttf - Size 27
WarGames Title N F.fon - Size  7, 12, 19 (Character resolution: 13x09)
WarGames Title N O.otf - Size  7, 20
WarGames Title N T.ttf - Size  7, 20
WarGames Title R F.fon - Size 14, 24, 38 (Character resolution: 13x18)
WarGames Title R O.otf - Size 27
WarGames Title R T.ttf - Size 27

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

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.

Currently I am not officially stating that I am including .WOFF or .WOFF2 web
font versions of the font files in the font pack.  The reason for this is that
there is an issue in generating web fonts in FontForge.  I intend to officially
include them in the future when I figure out how to correctly create them.  This
web page uses hacked .WOFF versions that are suboptimal but sufficient to
present here for now.  I am including three .WOFF font files with three .HTM
demo files in the font pack that you can use to see how the hacked .WOFF fonts
work in the web browser.  You will notice in the D (Double) and R (Raster) fonts
that when you select the text with the mouse it shows a highlighting that does
not come up to the top of the letters.  If you use highlighting in your HTML
document, you will also see that it does not come up to the top of the letters.
So, if that is something you want to have when using the .WOFF fonts in your web
document, I would not try to use them and wait until I generate proper .WOFF
font files in the future.  If not, then use the current hacked .WOFF font files
in your web document.  Check back here periodically for updates.

Font samples
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Here are all three fonts shown in a large size to demonstrate their appearance.


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

Download the latest release font pack file here:

-=> Download <=-

(WarGames Title Fonts.zip - Ver: 1.0 - Date: 2025-06-08 - Size: 51 KB)

Enjoy!

Installation

* 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"

Use

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
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For best results, it is recommended to use these fonts with a red (#FF0000)
foreground and a black (#000000) background.

License

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/

Final Suggestions

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.

WarGames title and intro credits images

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 Double 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.)

Thanks to

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.

Tools used

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