It might seem like just a question of style, but research reveals fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read. Fonts are “the clothes that words wear,” said early 20th ...

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It’s not often that we get to write about Nintendo here on The Ambient but we couldn’t ignore this… the Japanese gaming giant ...

Every single Mario platformer game, 2D or 3D, seems to gleefully reinvent itself to some degree, doubling down on the unique delights that they bring me. Continuing that trend, Super Mario Bros.

Negative space The empty space between letters is called kerning, and changing this affects the overall appearance of a typeface. Uniformity Elements that work well together. This can be colour ...

However, in the cases presented there is much more to look at. Those hoping to take advantage of Mario’s Law acted with intentional malice that were in some cases planned and reflected an ...

We've seen a retro-feeling Zelda that's not another open-world epic, and a final flurry of Mario spin-offs that will stretch into next year: another Mario vs Donkey Kong, one more Mario Party ...

In hindsight, a Nintendo alarm clock seems like a no-brainer. Alarm clocks are pretty standardized at this point in time, so all they really needed to do was take a standard model, stick a few music ...

It feels like a thousand years have passed since Princess Peach first summoned Mario to the seedy city of Rogueport to hunt for the legendary treasure that sleeps beneath the town. In reality ...

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Unlocking in-game humor. When game creators inject comedy into their products, especially when it’s at our cost, there’s ...

It’s the second half of Silent Hill 4 that’s most in need of a glow-up. Henry tries to save a vital NPC by sloooowly ...