Xbox Convection Font Family
Xbox 360 Convection Font Family Examples. Navy Federal Credit Union is an armed forces bank serving the Navy, Army, Marine Corps.
One of the threads in the Awful Archives that really should have gone further – and made a “gold” rating – was the Achievement Unlocked photoshop thread. The principle of the thread was to insert the Xbox 360 “Achievement Unlocked” logo over a picture.
I had a grand scheme for creating a few more of these, but I figured I’d post the template for the images to get some ideas circulating.
First of all, you’ll need the Xbox 360 “Convection” font used in the user interface. The font can be found as a part of the Media Center Extender software download; it’s called ConvectionRegular.ttf. I used WinRAR to extract the XboxMCE05Lite-enu.exe, then used WinRAR again to extract the contents of XboxMCE05.exe. The font is located in the mcrdinstaller directory in the setup archive.
For the lazy among you, grab the font here: ConvectionRegular.zip
To install the Convection font, click Start > Run and type in fonts. Drag the ConvectionRegular.ttf to the Fonts window, and wait for the progress bar.
I’ve provided “raw” PNG files of the achievement text, both as a single line (how it’s actually displayed on the 360) and as two lines. I used Fireworks 8 to edit them, but any program capable of reading PNG files should be able to process them.
Convection Font Download
Here’s the results:
Convection Font Style
(Download raw PNG)
(Download raw PNG)
Update 3/10/2007: Per Dave’s comment, here’s the two St. David’s-related achievement images, as well as some UW and Laurier related ones…
Edit: Fixed some atrociously poor image positioning.
The upcoming Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system will feature custom-designed fonts from Ascender Corporation as part of the Xbox 360 user interface, and its branding: advertising, marketing, packaging and documentation.
Elk Grove Village, IL (PRWEB) October 25, 2005 -- Ascender Corporation, a leading custom font development firm today announced that it designed the fonts for the new Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Ascender’s type designers and font software engineers created custom fonts tuned for high quality display on-screen in the Xbox user interface, as well as multilingual fonts to support the Xbox 360 branding and marketing.
“The Xbox 360 is an ambitious next-generation platform, and the fonts we created had to reflect the vision set forth by the Xbox 360 team,” said Steve Matteson, Ascender’s type director. “These fonts had to overcome demanding technical, multilingual and artistic challenges, because they will be used both on-screen and in traditional print and advertising applications” he added.
“The Ascender team really understood our design goals and created some exciting fonts” said Shelley Armstrong, Art Director for the Xbox Platform Experience. “They are a great partner to work with and we are thrilled with the results.”
Ascender worked closely with Microsoft to design fonts that expressed the Xbox 360 brand personality both on-screen and in print. The Xbox 360 introduces to game consoles an entirely new user interface, and the fonts needed to meet Microsoft’s design and technical requirements. The end result was a family of fonts named Convection™ designed by Steve Matteson that are exclusive to Microsoft.
The Convection font family includes regular, italic, bold and extra bold and a medium weight tuned specifically for the user interface. The main fonts include support for Western European and Greek, while a separate font was built to include Xbox icons and symbols for creating user manuals. Finally, Ascender also built Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts to complete the Xbox family.
Ascender Corp. specializes in creating multilingual, custom fonts for devices and branding. Steve Matteson was involved in designing the original Xbox fonts, as well as Microsoft’s corporate branding fonts. The Ascender team understands the issues involved with tuning fonts for on-screen legibility, as well as extending character sets to support Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and other scripts. Ascender works closely with branding agencies and clients to ensure that the font designs are consistent across character sets in all the brand’s markets, and are delivered in font formats such as TrueType, PostScript and OpenType for each client’s particular environments.
About Ascender Corporation
Ascender Corporation is a provider of advanced font products specializing in font design, development and licensing. Ascender’s founders are font industry experts, and have been involved in developing some of the most important and influential fonts used in computers, phones and printers. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development for enterprises and hardware & software developers. Ascender also provides high quality fonts for immediate download from the Ascender Font Store website.