Coming from the eye and onto your PC, this selection of glyphs reigns from the forgotten kingdom of RADICA: and their lost city of their 2005 20'Q pocket game. This little device was built upon the premace that it could legitamitely read your mind, and would try to guess the thing you're thinking of in 20 questions. If it didn't guess right the first time, then it would ask another 5 questions before it tried again. If it failed to guess your mystery object, you had won. The device itself came in those hard-to-open plastic containers, and featured an optional red "back light", buttons to respond to the questions such as Unknown, No, Yes/New Game, or Sometimes. (In a later variation, there also featured an Undo button to re-answer the last question. The device also came in multiple colors, and required two AAA 1.5V batteries. This little project of mine to recreate the font used in the game was a test to see if it was possible to recreate a font just by looking at it. For the majority of the glyphs just eyeballing it was good enough, but some of them (like the hard-to-read letters like the "s", or the rare ones like "G") weren't a walk-in-the-park to replicate. I had started this project back in 2023 (apparently, it's been a while.) and had come back in 2025 to tweak it some more. This upgrade not only updates the existing glyphs, but it adds the grid-like appearance to the letters to accentuate the grided-LCD's effect on the glyphs. In writing, I have decided that it would be appropriate to release this to the public in an open licence. Despite this project being a recreation of someone else's work, I doubt that anyone involved cares about this little machine anymore, nor am I even profiting from this. Seriously, I doubt anyone besides a small group of people would care about a font from a 20-year-old children's toy that was probably Times New Roman scaled down to proportions it was never designed for. I know of a similar-looking font used in the even-older Comquest Plus from Team Concepts. In fact, I have also recreated that font for anyone to use if they wish to compare.
At this point, you probably have stopped reading. If you are still reading this, then thank you! I hope that I have enstilled a sense of nostalgia within you.
Have a colorful day!
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