Sea of Thieves
Saja Typeworks · Aaron Bell · 2016
A custom extension of Windlass, commissioned by Rare to prepare the typeface for use in Sea of Thieves, with expanded character set, respacing and OpenType collision fixes.
About
Rare licensed Windlass for use in Sea of Thieves and engaged Aaron Bell to adapt it for their specific production requirements. The work involved extending the character set with carefully matched diacritics, a full respacing pass to achieve even typographic colour, and OpenType substitutions to eliminate problematic glyph collisions. Individual characters were also redesigned where the original forms caused issues at game scales.
Classification
A display typeface with a stylised, adventurous character suited to game branding; classified as display given its primary use in the Sea of Thieves game identity and marketing.