Industry: Design

An Corp

A pixel-era MMORPG font brought back from the dead

An Corp is a revival of the text font from the 1997 MMORPG Ultima Online, originally rendered at roughly 12px. Designers redrew each glyph over the pixel letterforms to retain their proportions and rhythm, balancing fidelity to the source with reinterpretation where the original Latin set was missing or poorly implemented. The result is a hybrid Gothic typeface combining Lombardic capitals with more contemporary lowercases, inheriting low contrast, orthogonal terminations, and slab serifs from the pixel source. The name references the in-game resurrection spell, framing the revival as an act of typographic resurrection.

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Each glyph was redrawn directly over the original pixel letters to preserve proportions and rhythm rather than redesigning from scratch.
Research and a conversation with former creative director Starr Long indicated the original font work was likely created by Micael Priest, who died in 2018.
Low contrast, orthogonal terminations, and slab serifs inherited from the pixel source make the typeface well-suited to small sizes.
The mix of Lombardic capitals and more modern lowercases lends the typeface an anachronistic character.