Being someone who’s pretty interested in video games, Grand Theft Auto is a game that I have had my eye on since 2015. I loved watching gameplay on it back then and to this day since many ridiculous moments can be had while playing even though it’s based in reality, you can pretty much do anything you want as an open world kind of game.
So you can imagine my excitement when I discovered that a font designer from Canada named Ray Larabie helped design the font for the game. Not only that, but upon further research, he designed more fonts for other popular games like Red Dead Redemption and Mass Effect.
Young Ray Larabie actually took inspiration from video games himself at arcades and became fascinated with the bitmap made fonts surrounding him. He then tried remaking them at home on a TRS-80, a desktop microcomputer that was launched in 1977. It’s awesome to see how video games can inspire people in different ways creatively, for Larabie it was typefaces and myself with illustration, in a way I can connect with his experience and I hope that people continue to find inspiration through games.