Jig Words is a word puzzle game developed by HipSoft and released on May 25th, 2005. The primary typeface chosen for the game art is Estro. Aldo Novarese’s casual slab with horizontal contrast is used with shaded caps for the letter tiles. Secondary UI elements are in Tahoma. See more of the game in Gage Brown’s playthrough video of the RealArcade release.
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- computer games (90)
- puzzles (24)
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- Washington (28)
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2 Comments on “Jig Words computer game”
Look closely, there are two more fonts. Banco and Helvetica.
You identified the fonts correctly. However, they are used for the logos of Hipsoft and RealArcade, not for the design of the Jig Words game. As such, I feel they shouldn’t be tagged.