Shadowrun is a roleplaying game that was first released in 1989 by FASA Corporation, and is still published today in its current, sixth edition. For most of those editions, the primary typeface for body text has been Friz Quadrata (1966), which was also used for the game’s logo for the first and second editions (the latter from 1992), shown above.

Page from the main rulebook for the first edition of Shadowrun, from 1989, showing Friz Quadrata in both regular and bold varieties, as well as faux bold italics for the quote below the chapter title, as no true italics were available at the time.

Note the straight quote marks. FASA Corporation is known to have used Apple Macintoshes at their office, so the text was most likely laid out in columns on a computer but then pasted up for printing. (Early books often include a “Paste Up” credit; this particular one doesn’t.)

Page from the Street Samurai Catalog (1989, though this one is actually from the revised edition from 1992), a supplement for Shadowrun. Body text is Futura, with the page title in Helvetica Compressed and some small bits in Aachen.

Revised game logo for the third edition (1998), using a modified Friz Quadrata.

Front cover of New Seattle by Stephen Kenson. Originally published by FASA in 1999, this is a later edition by FanPro. All text on the cover, except for the stock number, is Tribe (1997); the stock number is Bronzo (1992). The latter was also used for the titles on the spines of most of the later third-edition books (though not on this one).

Page from New Seattle, showing the chapter title and drop capital in Badloc (1989). Body text of third-edition books was still Friz Quadrata, and even though by this time true italics of this existed, Shadowrun books kept using faux versions instead.

The statistics block below the map is in Futura Condensed, while the fictional “comments” in the text are ITC Avant Garde Gothic, as are some of the captions on the map. The circled arrow that starts off each comment is the greater-than symbol from Badloc, though set larger and lower than it would be if set at the same point size as the text itself.

Page header in New Seattle, in Tribe.

Typical page header for a third-edition Shadowrun book, also using Tribe.

“Zoom is the twelfth studio album by British symphonic rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released on 12 June 2001 on Epic Records. It was the first official ELO album since 1986’s Balance of Power.” – Wikipedia

The cover features an illustration by Oliver Burston and the Bronzo typeface by Rick Valicenti (1992). Christine Wilson and Nancy Donald provided art direction.

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An anti-war poster by Rick Valicenti featuring some stretched Franklin Gothic and a tiny bit of his newly designed Bronzo (the extended ‘E’ crossbar gives it away).

APA began in 1981 as Advertising Photographers of America. In 1992 Mark Fox hand-inked this logo based on the typeface Bronzo (later renamed UltraBronzo) by Rick Valicenti, released earlier that year by Thirstype. In June 2010, the name was changed to American Photographic Artists.

“This is a logo owned by Microsoft for Xbox (console). It is a historical logo. Its historical usage is as follows: 2001-2005, 2008-2010. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer introduces original Xbox until 2001, and later Xbox 360 was introduced in 2005. Microsoft stopped using this original video game console and his logo until 2008 and 2010 with introduction of Kinect, codenamed Project Natal until November 2010.” — Wikipedia

The logo is likely based on Bronzo, Thirstype’s popular typeface from the 1990s, with its ‘B’ modified to echo the shape of the ‘O’.