ZX Gona

Gona is an incredibly popular typeface used in Japan from everything from signage to packaging to user interfaces. It’s a Latin typeface that is even more popular than Helvetica is in the western world. It’s a clean, smart sans-serif that is very easy to read.

While I’d adapted the similar Eurostile in the past I wondered if I could do Gona without it looking the same in 8x8 pixels… and it came out quite different. So here it is in both regular and bold variants!

This was day 22 in my 2024 Advent of Fonts.