Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is a survival horror game developed and published by Capcom, initially released on January 24th of 2017. The players control Ethan Winters, a seemingly average man in search of his missing wife, Mia, who disappeared three years ago. After receiving an email from her, it led him down to a plantation in Louisiana. Released after years of excitement and some trepidation from fans and the industry alike, the game has been widely praised and is largely credited for reviving the Resident Evil franchise among other achievements.

Resident Evil 7 is the first entry to use Plak Extra Condensed for the franchise’s logo, replacing Compacta Bold which was used in prior games such as the original Resident Evil. “Biohazard” uses Rama Gothic Rounded. In-game, the user interface primarily uses Franklin Gothic Book, which actually fits the Southern Gothic aesthetic very well. Futura is used more sparingly as a heading font of sorts and Rodin is used exclusively for the subtitles, possibly for localization reasons. Digital similarly is rarely used but can be spotted in number counters and the main menu.

Main menu. The player navigates the menu using a tape recorder that uses Digital for the UI.

Settings menu

The loading screens in RE7 consist of a short synopsis of the current chapter.

Ethan Winters confronting a very evil resident

Inventory menu

Death screen

An alternate UI for Jack’s 55th birthday, one of many RE7’s frankly unhinged DLCs. Digital is used for the timer. “Are You Ready?” is in Lydian Cursive.

The title sequence used in Gaspar Noé’s Cannes-selected movie Enter the Void has amazed me over the years in terms of typography and graphic design, and thanks to a friend of mine, Puz, (some of) these fonts have been identified.

It was created by Tom Kan, a Japanese designer based in Paris. From Ian Albinson’s interview with Kan for Art of the Title:

The sequence is a typographer’s wet dream (or alternatively their nightmare). How were the various fonts and characters chosen?

The choice of typefaces came rather naturally. After coming up with a large selection in line with the film’s mood, we simply chose the ones that best suited the characters and the personalities of those in the team. Gaspar wanted each title to reflect the person it concerned. It was a beautiful homage and proof of his respect for the members of the team — a way to thank them.

Many typefaces and designs did not get used because the time limit was set — the sound mix was already done and it was impossible to extend. I think we used only 60% of the designs, all in all.

Every typeface used in the sequence seems to be a reference to other famous film title or poster fonts. What was the typeface you selected for your own credit and why?

We appropriated different typefaces, but we never wanted to copy the titles from other films in an obvious way since I thought that would be misleading. For my own credit, I went in many different directions: aged typefaces in metal, Kanji and Japanese calligraphy, techno typography… In the end, I let Gaspar choose and he went with the biggest, most legible type!

Watch the title sequence on YouTube, or right below (epilepsy/flashing lights warning):

Futura Extra Bold Condensed in all caps is the primary typeface for the credits. Here it’s used in combination with Kozuka Gothic for Japanese, alongside some logos.

Music credits include Egyptienne Medium Condensed, Garamond, Eurostile, Bodoni Condensed, Neue Helvetica 93, Futura, and Helvetica Condensed. It’s unclear if the LFO logo uses a font (Disco Deck is similar) or whether it’s custom drawn.

In addition to Futura Extra Bold Condensed, the logos of the production and distribution companies feature Euphoric (Wild Bunch) and Futura Extra Bold (Fidelité).

Producer credits feature FB Agency, Kozuka Gothic, ITC Machine, Futura Display, stretched and slanted Woodblock, and Antique Olive Nord

The names of the co-producers are set in Egyptienne Medium Condensed, Univers Ultra Condensed, Futura, an unidentified font similar to Crown Title, two unidentified stencil(ed) fonts, and Trajan.

More Egyptienne Medium Condensed for Suzanne Girard

Manager credits feature Haettenschweiler, Council, Neue Helvetica Extended (?), Clarendon, Pump Triline, Fiorello, Eurostile, Thorowgood Sans Shaded, and Futura Condensed.

The name of location manager Masahiro Hondo in Glaser Stencil serves as a mask.

Bank Gothic with rainbow glow effect for Lucio Tomaro

Photography credits with slanted Bank Gothic (Benoît Debie), bold italic City with added and extended top and baseline serifs (Gaspar Noé), TFAvian (Akira Kanno), outlined Futura (Yasushi Miyata), Bell Gothic (Jacques Bernier), and Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed (Yves Le Peillet)

Art credits featuring an unidentified blocky unicase face with 3D bevel effect similar to Mark (Marc Caro), FF Vortex (Kikuo Ohta), another unidentified blocky sans (Jean Carrière), and Zeppelin (Nicoletta Massone)

The dripping letters for Tony Crosbie appear to be custom(ized) – Shlop is a similar ready-made font.

Sound and editor credits with Eurostile (Ken Yasumoto), stretched Ironwood (Ryotaro Harada), contoured Nasalization (Claude Lahaye), an upright LCD typeface, probably Digital (Thomas Bangalter), a heavily modified Sonic or another font inspired by the Star Trek TNG logo (Lars Ginzel), Galledis with hyperextended lines (Gaspar Noé), modified SF Archery Black (Marc Boucrot), Zaius, a typeface family emulating the Planet of the Apes movie series logo (Jerome Pesnel), and ITC Machine (Pierre Buffin).

The fonts used for these cards include an unidentified inline face similar to Rubaiyat and Gothicum (Geoffroy Niquet), SF Archery Black (Yann de Cadoudal), OCR-A (Nicolas Delval), Mexcellent (Xavier Allard), fractured caps from a bold sans, possibly Compacta Black (Julien Aullas), Synchro (Bastien Laurent), Helvetica Rounded Bold Condensed (Anne-Sophie Bertrand), and an unidentified squarish sans similar to SB Carbon, Resistance Is Lowered or Apollo Rocket (Loris Paillier).

City Bold, slanted, with double contour and extended baseline serifs, for Tom Kan, Director of Typography

Gaspar Noé in outlined caps from Futura Extra Bold Condensed, without accent on the E

The blackletter typeface chosen for Lucile Hadžihalilović is Linotext (or Mariage, Wedding Text) with some modifications: e and c got bottom serifs and the swash in v was moved from the left to the right stem,

Paz de la Huerta gets various typographic treatments, including Eagle (in a weight between Bold and Black), Futura Dot with Citadel Script, outlined Egyptienne Bold Extended, and ITC Neon.

The Japanese transcription of Paz dela Huerta’s name (パス・デ・ラ・ウエルタ) appears to be Hiragino Maru Gothic or similar, with added contour.

Nathaniel Brown’s name is shown in Pump, ITC Bolt, Aachen, West Barnum Block filled with stars and stripes, and ITC Lubalin Graph Demi.

The fonts chosen for Cyril Roy include Aachen, American Text, Monotype Garamond, and at least two Japanese ones.

The MICR-inspired face used for Olly Alexander is handmade, as confirmed byo Tom Kan. Other fonts include Compacta and all-caps ITC Bolt.

The fonts used for Masato Tanno are Akzidenz-Grotesk Stencil and Ainsdale. The others are yet unidentified.

Gothicum and a (custom?) stencil version of Aachen for Ed Spear, Helvetica Rounded and Neue Helvetica 95 for Emily Alyn Lind, more Helvetica Rounded, an unidentified Japanese font, and Eagle for Jesse Kuhn and Nobu Imai

More ITC Neon and Helvetica Rounded for Sakiko Fukuhara. The bitmap font is 04b_08.

Sarah Stockbridge is set in Haettenschweiler with hyper-extended glyphs).

The names of Janice Sicotte-Beliveau and Stuart Miller are shown in Cooper Black, Impact Wide, Monterey and ITC Officina Serif, Braggadocio, Fiedler Gothic, and Blackoak.

Yemi Carol is presented in Impact Wide, Helvetica Rounded, and a Japanese Maru Gothic. The font shown at the bottom right is unidentified.

Several of the fonts used for Gaspar Noé’s name are yet unidentified. This includes alll fonts in the top row and the left one in the second row, which is similar to Moore Computer and Data 70. Other fonts include ITC Lubalin Graph, Futura Extra Bold Condensed, and Eagle.

Merlin’s Millennium Edition Sticker Collection, published by Topps Europe in 2000, is a special offer Merlin made to football fans to collect and swap their stickers with other collectors in a special event named “Merlin Swop Shop Tour”, which is sponsored by Caprisun.

The main fonts used in the booklet and on the stickers are Grant Hutchinson’s Badloc and David Berlow’s Techno. The former is used for titles, with EndcapS and plenty of effects. The latter appears in team and player descriptions, among other places. The boxes with Premier League records and club facts use Blake Springer’s Digital.

Steven Gerrard, Liverpool F.C.

Alan Shearer, Newcastle United

David Beckham, Manchester United

Gradius logo using Langdon Biform with modified G and S and also using 1 for the I letter.

From Wikipedia:

Gradius (グラディウス, Guradiusu, /ˈɡræd.i.əs/ GRAD-ee-əss) is a series of shooter video games, introduced in 1985, developed and published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper.

The arcade version of Gradius was released internationally outside Japan under the title of Nemesis, although subsequent home releases have the original title. There's also a series called Salamander (Life Force), which is considered as a part of Gradius series, but with slight different game mechanics, such as switching between Side Scroller and Vertical Scroller.

There’s a fanmade font named Gradius that’s based on the logo itself. But the actual logo used Langdon Biform, with modified G and S and also using 1 for the I letter.

“Destroy the Core!” is the most memorable quotes when player facing the boss battle of the games.

Gradius packaging design for Nintendo Entertainment System. Most text is set in Eras.

Flyer for the arcade version of Gradius which was released outside Japan under the title of Nemesis.

Box cover for Gradius Collection (or Gradius Portable in Japan) for PlayStation Portable, which is a collection of several series of the games. The fonts featured on the box include Handel Gothic (“20 years of intense shooting action”), Serpentine (“5 complete games”), Digital (ICG), and Helvetica Condensed.

Start screen of Gradius Portable, known outside of Japan as Gradius Collection

Cover of the manual for Gradius V for PlayStation 2 (2004)

CD cover for the soundtrack to the latest instalment of the series, Gradius: The Slot (2011), made for Japanese Pachinko machines