: What font did Nintendo use for the freeze-frame titles in their newcomer trailers for the 2014 Super Smash Bros. games? In building up to the release of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and

@Heady304

It's DF Gothic W10, a primarily Japanese font (with Latin characters too) by DynaComware. A license costs 0 (wow!), probably because of how extensive the complete character set is. There doesn't seem to be a cheaper, latin-alphabet-only version available for purchase, so fulfilling your dreams of making totally accurate fake character announcements is probably going to get kind of pricey.

Here's a screenshot of the Fonts.com tryout tool, for comparison:



Finding it was kind of fun:

In Photoshop CC, I used the Perspective Crop tool to isolate a mostly un-perspective-warped version of the text from the full size screencap. Afterwards, I used the Quick Select tool and the "Refine Edge" tool (via Select -> Refine Edge...) to get the lettering into a style that most automated identifiers like. Here's what it looked like after I scaled it down:



I submitted that to both WhatTheFont and WhatFontIs. WhatTheFont didn't come through, but a page's worth of searching through WhatFontIs results led me to my answer, and perhaps the world of fakery is a little worse for it.

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