Temple of Apshai C64 box art
Contributed by Bryson Stohr
on Apr 24th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Source: www.lemon64.com License: All Rights Reserved.
The box art for Epyx’s Commodore 64 port of Temple of Apshai, a classic RPG. Shown here is the game’s cassette release for the computer – some of the other releases were styled differently.
The font used for the title of the game is Croissant by Philip Kelly. At least two modifications were made to the font: the o was closed, and a drop cap-style f was created, likely from modifying the font’s t; the designer for the box art likely thought the original glyph was too goofy or ambiguous.
It’s paired here with Helvetica and Helvetica Condensed, and Crillee, Epyx’s signature typeface at the time.
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Croissant’s T here appears just as it’s included on Letraset’s dry transfer sheets, with the pointier bits of the bar at the bottom left and top right (like a tilde). Curiously, this glyph was flipped in the digitization, see the versions sold by Scangraphic and ITC.