Console Icon Fonts

Icons For Video Game Controllers

These are some of the console icon fonts I created using Illustrator and Fontographer, for BradyGAMES and Prima Games. Their intended use was to represent the controller buttons within the content of our Strategy Guides.

The first console icon font I designed for BradyGAMES was for Sony PlayStation. My goal was to develop a simplified method of conveying button presses and button combinations without the necessity of describing the actions in words. Rather than saying “Press up and left on the direction pad while holding the X button” we could have the actual buttons in the text. This made our books much easier to read with less potential for misinterpretation.

Over my tenure with BradyGAMES and Prima Games, I created icon fonts for every major gaming console from Sony PlayStation through Nintendo Wii.